Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind...
...purpose of cleanliness, lukewarm water and soap should be used on the parts most exposed, as the face, neck and hands, morning and evening. Water should not be allowed to dry into the hair, as a disagreeable odor is sometimes produced in this way, and the action of the glands interfered with. A fine-toothed comb should be used with great caution, and no comb violently...
...delay, Fillebrown, M. S., and Whitelaw, '87, appeared for the first bout in the feather weight sparring. Whitelaw led off with a quick right-hander which was neatly parried. Whitelaw forced the fighting but was not quick enough for his adversary, who placed some very pretty blows on his face. The round ended with the advantage on Fillebrown's side. Both men appeared fresh for the second round. Whitelaw again rushed his opponent who avoided some heavy blows very neatly. In turn Fillebrown placed some effective hits. The round seemed about equal. In the third round Whitelaw again began rushing...
...proposed as a remedy for cribbing that offenders be dealt with by a jury of undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were...
Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...