Word: exhaustion
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...building is ventilated by fans that force in air of a constant temperature, and exhaust the old. The building is lighted throughout by electricity, and power is furnished in the laboratories for use in any kind of electro-chemical work...
Third class. - When the first impression is vivid but the power of recalling it is weak. The emotional, highly excitable belong to this class. They exhaust all their strength in acquiring the first impression...
...religion, look to see if there be not a discord in the old religion. Above all, these words of the text must be pondered on by those who come to college for the first time, for a new and truer life opens before them. They will not exhaust, in four years, the meaning of life; but they will meet with a new aspect of it, and though the old religion may not entirely disappear, it will be broadened and changed in the new. At college the new comer enters into a year which nothing that ever lived will bring back...
...during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour and a half and the tremendous efforts of the first part seemed to exhaust them. Princeton, on the contrary, has played a full game and more every day in practice, and consequently seemed to improve in strength and skill proportionately as our team weakened...
...present plan will revert to the former condition, and unless some efforts are put forward in all our higher institutions of learning, we may again see the professor and student living within themselves. Very recently some of the professors at Harvard were complaining that they are fast becoming exhausted by unintermitted intercourse with students." If such has been the effect on the professor of closer contact with the student, it is to be regretted; it certainly destroys the theory which demands that closer contact, for the basal principle of the theory is that the closer intercourse will strengthen, rather than...