Word: hand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advantages. received counsel in their sight-seeing, and disseminated its influences among their friends. The regular students are now instructors and investigators in their own land, and have brought back the enthusiasm for their work which is so strengthened by the seeing of the eye, the touch of the hand, and a general experience of classic lands. One of them, by the generosity of Miss Wolfe, was enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second...
...happen to be within ear-shot. Again, as though they had been unused to good manners at home, they toss food to and fro across the table as if they were ignorant of the fact that the faculty furnish a "cage" in the gymnasium in which to practice hand-ball. In truth, a cage seems to be the only suitable place for the majority of them. Now and then a man will toss a piece of cake in the air, and endeavor to catch it in his mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey...
...that have been placed on the new cases in the reading room of the library. I was especially pleased to see the writings of Browning, Rossette, Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith, about which most of us know so very little, put where a student can not help laying his hand upon them...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The refinement of torture, the nightmare of the Mid-years, 36 per cent. is a thing of the past. E may bring despair, but not such exasperation. On the other hand, the uncompromising grind finds himself in A side by side with a lucky and judicious sport. It can no longer be said absolutely, "If you are good you will be happy but you won't have a good time." A premium has been taken off that mid-year knowledge - if knowledge it can be called - which is useful in the examination room and nowhere else...
...State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other...