Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intellectual and moral results. It destroyed the roots of ancient beauty and symmetry, and produced a series of corporeal deformities, distortions, disfigurements, weaknesses and imperfections in both shape and development, which, transmitted from generation to generation, are still conspicuous in the great masses of people. Happily a reaction in favor of the Greek point of view with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled on the frowning night. Roussean, the great apostle of freedom, hurled the thunders of his fiery eloquence against the strongholds of mental despotism...
...during the War of Independence, gave them a sudden and important celebrity. To the enthusiasm and skill of these young men, who formed the vanguard of Blucher's army, much of the fervent spirit of national resistance to the domination of the French is undoubtedly to be ascribed. The favor with which gymnastics were then regarded was universal. Kings and people vied with each other in extolling their worth and importance. But in the troublous times that followed the triumpus of the battle-field they fell into disrepute, at least with the governments of Germany. Not only were the promises...
LOST.- At or near Memorial on Thursday evening, a pair of eye-glasses. The finder will confer a favor by leaving them with the Auditor, or at Room 3, Chemical Laboratory...
...Anagnos' article, which we publish to-day, has in it many elements of interest to us here, where all forms of athletics enter so largely into our daily life. There is scarcely a necessity for an argument in favor of athletics in a place where such sports are so deeply rooted. The forms, not the facts; the details, not the whole, are the subjects of controversy. Yet Mr. Anagnos has formulated a peculiarly fascinating and eloquent plea in favor of athletics, his arguments being based solely on the good results attained by the development of a sound body. The enjoyment...
LOST.- A woolen glove, Finder will confer a favor by leaving the same...