Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three new professorships will be absolutely essential. . . . It has been intimated that a serious obstacle in the way of gifts from generous friends of the college is the seeming apathy of the graduates of Princeton themselves, of whom it has been said that they make no effort whatever to exhibit their faith in the institution by pecuniary aid. There is reason to believe that this impression once removed by the endowment of one chair by the alumni, the funds to endow the other two chairs ($120,000 additional) will be forthcoming without delay...
...idea that tobacco allays nervousness is exploded; as although by constant use of it the system becomes so accustomed to it as not at the time to exhibit any effect, yet it tends to irritate the nervous system. If it were not for the action of the liver and kidneys in throwing off the tobacco poison, a user of the weed could not live. The action of these organs is shown by the yellowish tint and puffed condition of the skin of the habitual tobacco user. Although it has been much discussed whether or not tobacco is good...
...HERALD: The quality of the knowledge displayed by the "Boarder" who inquires about the "crockery assessment" item is well illustrated by his statement that "the assessment has never been less than $100." He would need to look not far among past reports, which the auditor is always ready to exhibit, to find, in fact, that the general average of the assessments is about $90, to say nothing of months in which it is considerably less than that. If he had made such an investigation he might have discovered at the same time a striking uniformity in the four cents...
...agent of the canvas bag fire-escape was at Harvard Saturday to exhibit his apparatus...
...week passes in a constant round of festivity. Garden-parties in the college grounds, picnics up the Granta and the Isis; concerts and balls at night; and not least, the glorious music and impressive services of Sunday, in time honored chapels, whose walls exhibit great names of those who in their turn have studied and worshipped in those sacred precincts - such are the attractions which the universities hold out to their summer visitors, and which are little likely to be forgotten by those who have the good fortune to take part in them...