Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...society will give the burlesque of "William Tell" on Friday night of next week...
...well known as a reader among the literary circles of Cambridge, and has acquired a reputation by public readings elsewhere; he is to be assisted by C. H. Kloman in one selection from Shakspere. The vocal music is by D. M. Babcock, '77, and among others he is to give "King Macbeth," "Friend of the Brave," and an "Aria from Don Giovanni...
...artiste of France and his double of England or America are very different persons, for practical morals are never questioned here, nor have we different codes for different classes of society. But in essentials they are the same. The accident which changes a bourgeois into an artiste does not give him the social training, or, as the French call it, the savoir vivre, requisite of a gentleman, much less his delicacy of feeling. Wordsworth certainly was superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves...
...body. This brings again to mind the thought that the higher our education the better should be the care which we learn to take of our bodily organs, since when they are in the healthiest condition they do us the best service. It is superfluous, however, to give to persons possessed of even the moderate wisdom of college students reasons why we should attend to the laws of health. As a theory, the necessity of caring for our bodies is admitted by all; but Theory does not always walk hand in hand with her less flighty sister, Practice; she often...
...second reason why many students give so little attention to their health is that they are ignorant of the construction of the human body, and of the "rules and regulations" necessary to be observed in order to keep this wonderful servant of the human will in perfect working condition. At home the majority of us learn only general maxims in this regard, such as, "Don't get in a perspiration and then stand in a draught," or "When you don't feel quite well omit a meal and give Nature a chance to recover"; but of the circulation...