Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Francis Minot, of the Medical School, delivered an interesting lecture last night on the diseases to which professional men are subject and the means of preventing them. The health of such men is above the average, as their freedom from anxiety and overwork, combined with the usually good sanitary conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper...
...windows and rafters, and prevents the sudden rebounding of batted balls, while the entire sides and one end are protected by cord netting. Thus the whole interior of the cage is inclosed in a firm network which prevents in jury to the building and insures to the players perfect freedom from the danger of hard rebounding or glancing balls. By a system of pulleys one of the nets can be moved inward a distance of eight feet from the side and held in that position. This divides the cage into two parts, and affords a narrow alley for battery work...
...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 and traditional authority with terrible effect, and on their ruins he laid the corner stone of a new educational empire. Roussean's Emile was the great event of the last century prior to the French revolution...
...thrown on their own resources, whose hours have been mapped out for them, whose coming and going has been regulated by authority, whose clothes have been bought, whose books and companions have been chosen, or who have been in the seclusion of careful boarding-schools, are suddenly thrown into freedom, entirely unprotected, can choose everything from companions to studies and at the same time have to meet temptations new in kind and in degree. Having had no command of money, with no experience of providing for the future, they are given a month or six months' allowance, and the parent...
...James, and in an easy, slow and dignified manner began by defining the meaning of ethics and culture. The meaning of the first of these terms is definite and clear, of the latter, loose and vague. There are three marks of culture, literary tastes, aesthetic tastes and ease and freedom in the forms of polite society. One having these marks is esteemed cultured, and since they depend largely upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come to be so nearly associated that some persons have doubted if they could be separated. But my words will...