Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Palmer's lectures in Philosophy 4 will soon be published in book form...
George Hosmer, the rowing celebrity, has invented a rowing machine for indoor practice. In form, it is of the size and bulk of the tricycle, and constructed in a similar manner. He doubtless obtained his idea from this machine. Hosmer claims to have made a mile on it to the tune of 3.45. Wheel...
...Yale; Dr. Sargent, of Harvard; the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, of Amherst; William Blaikie, of New York; Professor Koehler, of West Point; Professor McIntyre, of Lafayette; Dr. Seaver, of Yale; and several others. The persons present listened to addresses upon matters relating to physical culture, and it was decided to form a permanent association. The name adopted was The Association for Advancement of Physical Education. The following officers were elected: president, Dr. Hitchcock; vice-presidents, Professors Richards and Sargent and Miss Putnam; secretary, W. G. Anderson; treasurer, J. D. Andrews; council, the president, vice-presidents, and William Blaikie and Professor McIntyre...
...experience. Although Englishmen have always objected to state interference, yet they have fallen into ideas that border very closely on state control of railroads and other public enterprises. English professors and writers all show a tendency to throw off the old laissez-faire conception and take up a mild form of socialism. All men cannot help themselves; state help is necessary. The old state of society is inadequate to the new. The invention of steam and improved machinery has changed the relations between employer and employee. The interference of the state was necessary in order to adjust these new relations...
...eastern colleges; between North, South, and West, the gulf is too wide for the most casual reader to overlook. Here in the north we have reached the stage of devotion to the aesthetic, so well illustrated by the Century and Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit have for the most part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which...