Word: hand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania is to have a new library building, and the ambitious intention is to make it capable of holding no less than 330,000 volumes. Some $50,000 is already in hand to start the work, and now the university people are hoping to be able to attach to the building an alumni hall something like Sanders Theatre, where all the public exercises of the institution can be held and classical plays by students rendered.- Tribune...
...horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost an intoxicating one. To advise these men to take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice...
Copying on the type-writer and by hand. A stenographer may be employed for dictation...
...morality and industry are exerted by these societies-lazy men are made to work for honors, and wild fellows made to be-have. Society spirit causes just enough rivalry to that extravagant estimate of classmates and class interests, which is produced by class spirit; while this on the other hand prevents the clannishness and narrowness peculiar to society life. The result is a spirit which causes men to take a many, healthy view of college mates and college life, and in general to estimate men and things at their true value...
Copying on the type-writer and by hand. A stenographer may be employed for dictation...