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Word: howes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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We beg leave at the outset to correct a misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Football Association. The officers of our Association do not doubt that the members of the Princeton team are all duly registered students in Princeton College or University. Instead of establishing this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

The lecturer spoke as follows: Roughly speaking, the arid region extends from the 100th meridian to the Pacific ocean, between the 100th and the 105th lies the so called "debatable ground." an enormous piece of territory upon which agriculture is in some years profitable, in others, not. Washington Oregon, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Gregory's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

Notice has been taken of the close relation of mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Conference Meeting. | 12/18/1889 | See Source »

Professor Shaler's article in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly is indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VACATION SCHOOLS. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

On investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VACATION SCHOOLS. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

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