Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University handicap meeting for the 30th. There will also be a hare and hounds run every Tuesday afternoon, beginning with this week. The freshman class ought to see to it that a large number of men are out practicing every day on the track. Mr. Lathrop is so genial and considerate that they need have no fear about trying; and if they are qualified to try for any event he will do all in his power to perfect them for it. These fall meetings are useful in bringing out the new men and determining their merits. Such a large class...
Thomas Francis Hearn, a special student, died on the twentieth of last July at his home in South Boston, of pneumonia. Mr. Hearn was a member of high standing of the class of '85, B. L. S., and his bright, genial disposition made him universally beloved by his class-mates. Owing to weakness in his eyes, he was obliged to suspend his studies at the Latin School two years before graduation and entered business. But his desire to pursue a college course was so strong that be devoted his leisure hours to study and entered college with his old class...
...quarters. They are really very pleasantly situated in a little white farm house, which, like the 'varsity quarters, has a good view of the river. The owner of the house, Capt. Mahlthrop, is a jolly old soul, and makes everything very pleasant for the crew. The pictures which the genial captain has in his various rooms, are of an unusually uninteresting character, and it has become a custom of freshman crews upon taking possession, to turn them face inwards towards the walls. There are four sleeping rooms up stairs, and each man has a separate bed. Meals are prepared...
...very similar construction, and a very close sympathy exists between them; thus a disease of the mucous membrane may spread to the skin, and vice versa. The outer layer of the epidermis is being continually cast off. The temperature of health, says Sir Erasmus Wilson, is a genial summer over the whole surface, and when that exists the system cannot be otherwise than well. This agreeable warmth of the skin must be maintained by food, by clothing, by exercise, and by washing. The material of which the clothing is made has much to do with its fitness to fulfill...
...full swing, busily engaged in the task of grinding out its annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save...