Word: holding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...finally half a week. The more I cut off the down the faster and thicker it grew; and as I am averse to all duties that have to be performed regularly, I soon conceived a great prejudice against my mustache, and read all the medical books I could get hold of, to see if there was no antidote against it. I did not want to let it grow, because its color is a sort of magenta, and I had not then made up my mind to go to Harvard...
...serious danger. He himself did not then appreciate his condition, perhaps even he never appreciated it; and it was against his wishes that a physician was at last summoned. Everything that friends and physicians could do for him was done; but weakness and disease had taken too strong a hold upon his frame to be dislodged...
...leading notions contained in the word. The chief of these is that of self-respect. In the first place it has nothing to do with morality except in the department of fidelity arising out of self-respect. A man may get drunk every night, or keep a harem, or hold every heresy that theologians have denounced, and yet be a strictly honorable man. Lady Hamilton did not make Nelson less than the pink of honor, nor did Pitt's port prevent his being one of the purest and noblest statesmen that ever lived...
...such asceticism, it was well for the Faculty to prohibit all liquor at Commons; but times have changed, and a more rational temperance, not altogether due to the (so-called) "Temperance Party," has been adopted by almost all. It seems, then, like a repetition of the old mistake to hold up teetotalism as the highest virtue, and, in regard to our own College, Why, we ask again, should the almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate...
...Chess Club have decided to hold the Tournament open until March I. Those who have withdrawn are expected to re-enter the lists. Following is a summary of games...