Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows, and a high degree of hardness they have in common with the "forms...
...much to call attention to this branch of college work. At present, among the students at large, the study of Physics is neglected. Few take courses in the subject, unless they wish to become scientific specialists. Yet our new Physical Laboratory is an excellently equipped institution, and nothing except more men are needed. To day, it is true, the department in question labors under a disadvantage. The manner of conducting the required course in Physics for the classes of '86 and '87, hopelessly prejudiced many against that branch of science, by the end of the freshman year. Accordingly, the courses...
...improvements in the different courses and the new numbering of them have made the old examination papers, now at the library, almost useless, except as memories of the past...
...conditions in their own cases and ask that for the sake of courtesy, if for no other more patriotic motive, their successors in their turn bear the burdens they have borne. Every freshman class undergoes the same test as to its interest in college athletics, and no class, except the present, has evaded it. We cannot believe that the class of '89 is more unhappily constituted than its predecessors, or that, if a just statement of the case be made to its members, they will will refuse to bear their fair share in the support of our athletics. The deficit...
...Food may be said to be any substance which when introduced into the body supplies the material which renews some structure or maintains some vital process." Alcohol cannot be considered as a food, except to the extent that it reduces waste of tissue. As a heat producer it is inferior to fat. Hunger and thirst are the demands of our bodies for food. Thirst is far less endurable than hunger; liquids enter into every part of the body...