Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then our Heavenly Father saw fit in His infinite wisdom to permit a sickness to fasten on him that prepared the way for death to make an easy conquest. And now the joyous song that had been singing so continuously all through his life is hushed and almost smothered by the sobs of this great sorrow, while "all that are about him bemoan him; all that know his name say now is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod." At this interruption of his earthly life we reverently pause and ask, What virtues has it made emphatic? What lessons...
...information. "The great philosopher, Muag Big, to be sure," said she, "and his daughter. He is, they say, the greatest thinker alive. He has an idea that his daughter will be the mother of a great race, and he is looking for a young ape who shall be a fit husband for her. Is n't that a suffocatingly queer idea? I am going to see his daughter, Tue Swe, to-morrow; won't you go with...
Having collected her "ante," Dr. De Jones sat down and told us that she would go into a trance. From the expression of her countenance and the contortions of her body, I thought that it was more likely that she was going into a fit, brought on by a too liberal diet of green fruit. But the aged citizen who met us at the door, and who seemed to be a kind of manager, assured us that it was positively a trance, and a superior article...
...Crew intend to continue rowing. We regret to learn this, as our chances of victory, which seemed so good after the race last July, are now in precisely the same position as in the fall of '80. It is the duty of every man who is in any way fit for the University, and who is not prevented from rowing by some insuperable obstacle, to begin training at once and thus to aid our captain in the formation of his eight. If we allow our much-talked of indifference to control us this year, if we do not show...
...fit for a dying heart to know...