Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above noticed. Lastly, organic chemistry carries us into the higher fields of the science. It is but a step, yet enough to get some glimpse of its extended prospect. It is almost wholly theoretical, the course of lectures being illustrated by experiments performed, at need, by the student. On it is based all of the advances made by the science in our day. It requires rather an inquiring and philosophical mind than delicacy...
...painful feeling," he misrepresents men in many of their actions. Not to value human nature too highly, we can at least lay claim to some better motives than these. We should be unwilling to believe that all actions are induced by the wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account for these...
...object of the rule is, of course, to prevent a student from deferring an examination on slight pretexts, for the purpose of attaining a higher mark than he feels able to get at the specified time. The belief that this rule will rarely ever do an injustice, by affecting such as are absolutely incapacitated from attendance on examination on account of severe sickness, is based on the experience of the last five years, that but one Senior has, during that time, been absent from his annuals. It is inferred that valid reasons for absence cannot be more numerous...
...arguments that are used in support of the practice of having morning prayers are that they make us get up in time for recitation, and that they have a religious influence. Through its President, the College has declared that it is satisfied, from experience, that the omission of morning prayers influences neither the attendance at the first recitations, nor our good order and discipline. Since this question concerns the College alone, it is entirely disposed...
...sometimes on the land, - a happy faculty, vich secures him ag'in' all danger of drowning ven a travellin' by vater! The dodo likevise, a vonderful bird from New 'Olland, same size all the way round, don't valk much and can't fly, heats vat it can get, and dies ven it can't get nothink more! SCENE 6TH AND LAST: John Vesley a Preaching. - In the centre John is a standin' before a big stun, a declamin' agin the worldly bishops. In the foreground people a hollerin', "Down vith the Hestablishment!" vich means the Church of Hingland...