Word: heresay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essays of Dr. Sargent upon physical culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most simple forms of gymnastic exercises. But for dash and vigor and the highest sense of physical perfection...
...elective system at Harvard has its latest development in the determination of students of the medical school to have lectures on homeopathy, in the face of the refusal of the faculty to permit such heresay to be preached from any pulpit under their control. This is an extension of the system which was perhaps unlooked for by the college authorities; but it is logical, and, what it more to the point, the boys are set upon having it.-Record...