Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average weight is one hundred and twenty-two and one-half pounds, and a pretty fair one it is. Average age, seventeen and one-half, and average gain in three months, whether owing to hard study, or to the much-despised but wise plan of "early to bed and early to rise," seven and one-half pounds. For the benefit of future husbands, who, like good old Dr. Primrose in the "Vicar of Wakefield," choose their wives not for their shining surface, but for good wearing qualities, we will add that seventeen are taking practice lessons in cookery, nine...
...that of $CEdipus all the parts are rendered in English; we had expected, with many others, that this use of two languages would seriously mar the beauty of the work, but we find that for a promiscuous audience it will only enhance the interest and enable them to better gain the needful understanding of the tragedy. The actors, all carefully chosen, enter thoroughly into the spirit of the great work which they are to perform. It is needless for us to speak of the wonderful acting of Mr. George Riddle, whose fame has already been established. If such a thing...
...traditional studies called liberal. The scientific turn of mind is comparatively rare among the young men who enter the college, a large majority of the students preferring languages, metaphysics, history, and political science, to mathematics, physics, zoology, and botany. Every extension of the system has been a gain to the individual student, to the college, and to every interest of education and learning; and the time is not far distant when the few subjects still prescribed for all students will in their turn become elective...
...through their neglect, at the outset almost destroyed their usefulness in the important games that followed. A light but steady practice in the gymnasium during the winter, and some regular out-door training in the spring and summer, is what our players must come to if Harvard is to gain the supremacy on the foot ball field next fall. The lacrosse team, the nine, and class crews, give the men ample facilities to improve their condition next spring; and the captain of the foot ball team should insist that each of his men should engage in some one of these...
...French senatorial elections yesterday 64 Republicans and 15 Conservatives were elected. The Republicans gain 22 seats...