Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time is fast approaching when those members of the senior class who are fortunate enough to be able to choose their future aim in life will necessarily be obliged to make some definite decision in regard to that matter. It may be another case of the blind leading the blind, if we venture to make any suggestions. Nevertheless, it may be well to call to mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice...
...sound of pistol shots in the vicinity of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory appears to have excited some students who have recitations in the Lawrence Scientific School. They have no reason for anxiety; it is only the members of Physics C, trying to find out how fast sound travels...
Surveying 2 visited the Meigs elevated railway yesterday, and made elaborate drawings of it. The road is fast approaching completion...
...earnest convictions backed by a strong desire to do our best in maintaining them; we are sufficiently intimate with England to absorb some of her sweetness and light without necessarily losing our own innate fire and strength; so thus far we seem likely to advance in poetical achievement as fast as the other country is giving way. The danger is that the work of our first century of national life will be undone by Anglomania and dilletantism; but, so far as we now can see, that danger threatens only those feebler singers whose voice could under no circumstances be heard...
...meet each other in athletic contest and be at the same time institutions of learning, of serious thought and intellectual study, is false. Study and athletics can go together, and are better together than apart. A man can think while walking, as long as he doesn't walk too fast. And if he undertakes to think without even walking, the time will come when he can neither think nor walk. The moral of all this is, be studious but be athletic also. An athletic student is worth something, and a studious athlete does not suggest an anomoly...