Word: eye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Walk in such a way as readily to catch the eye of your friends...
...HERALD-CRIMSON, being in a transition state as to its name must await the time with patience before it can again appear with an artistic capping. The Advocate although neat in its appearance would look much more attractive in a cover of some delicate shade pleasing to the eye. It seems strange that with so many fine arts' students our fortnightly should be behind those of other colleges in this respect. Its appearance in a new cover would make an important addition to the newly fledged brood of artistic-looking papers...
...only evoked a louder burst of applause. On one occasion, when fifty of the students were writhing and tumbling about in the agonies of a "canerush" in the great hall of the university, he came out of the chancellor's room, his face beaming with smiles, and holding his eye-glasses in one hand, with the other he patted the shoulder of a brawny sophomore, and exclaimed in his soft, sweet tones, "Why, gentlemen, you mustn't do this! Gentlemen, you must stop this at once!" Tradition says that the sophomore took the professor up in his arms, as tenderly...
...dissents from the opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare of a white surface without injury. People exposed for a long time to the glare of a sandy desert or a continuous stretch of snow are usually affected injuriously. The British soldiers in Egypt and Lieutenant Danenhower of the Jeannette expedition may be instanced...
Another good which our gymnasium has effected is the outside influence which it has exerted. Its reputation as a physical educator has spread far and near. Many persons interested in gymnastic sports have visited it with an eye to the establishment of like institutions in distant cities. Students at other colleges, hearing of its advantages, have forced their faculties to give attention to this matter. Better recreative facilities at their own colleges has been the result. Finally, the good habits and ideas learned by those who use it while here, spread abroad after graduation, influence many others in the right...