Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most of only one section of the community, can never excite the enthusiasm or acquire the national dignity enjoyed by one where, by a touch of nature, prince, peer and peasant are made kin. Lawn tennis is exactly calculated to be a game of the latter sort. It is fit for old and young, for men and women, for the strong and the weak. It expands the lungs, strengthens the muscles, improves the condition and takes off "weight" as surely as a Turkish bath, and more wholesomely. Such a game ought to be "national" in the best sense...
...final, and perhaps the most effective, argument against the fence in the opinion of the faculty is the belief shared by its leading members, that the students themselves are really opposed to the project, although many of them do not see fit to express their sentiments on the question. Many of these reasons appear to have some foundation in the nature of the case; but it does not seem to us that, taking all the facts into consideration, they are strong enough, whether taken separately or together, to justify the abandonment of the plan as first proposed of building...
...should be himself rather than that every one should be forced into a dull uniformity. The prescribed system, on the other hand, works on the principle that one shoe should be established by induction or inspiration or what not, and every foot turned and twisted and jammed to fit...
...most prominent weak point is the lack of competent and sufficient instruction in the branches which fit one for the duties of citizenship. Though the departments of history and political economy are crowded with students, yet in the former United States history is almost entirely neglected, while in political economy there is but one instructor for every 100 students, as against an average for the whole university of one teacher to 9 scholars, (163 instructors, 1,428 students.) What is needed in these departments is an increase in the amount of instruction, instructors of learning and reputation, and courageous, fairminded...
Junior, parsing: "Nihil is a noun." Professor: "What does it come from?" Student: "It doesn't come at all." Professor (quizzing): "Doesn't it come from nihilo?" Student: "No, sir. Ex nihilo nihil fit...