Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the divine company of human souls may rise and rise in strength. Those who subscribe to this view possess the best culture, and those who are true to this principal are cultured and none others. Culture is not in the possession of things mental and material, but the way in which we regard them...
...water supply. Every day it takes ten or fifteen minutes to regulate the temperature of the water so as to make it bearable, either the hot water will flow and the cold will not or vice versa. In meantime the bath-room is becoming packed with a crowd of human beings who are naturally anxious to make use of the shower-bath, but find so many men ahead of them that they are forced to wait a long time, in course of which the same old trouble in regulating the temperature of the water is undergone. The gymnasium authorities should...
...human tooth, roots and all, was recently found in a plate of beans at Memorial. It is supposed to be of prehistoric origin, and is at the disposal of the management...
...those "happy-go-lucky" fellows who room in the college dormitories in and about the yard, whose confidence in human nature is so guileless that they leave the doors of their rooms unlocked, we should like to say a few words of caution. In one of the college dormitories several thefts have lately occurred, resulting in the loss of several overcoats in rooms whose occupants were careless enough to leave their doors unlatched. One of the "goodies" in Weld was unfortunate enough a day or two ago to have some light-fingered wanderer walk off with the bunch of keys...
...great deal of space and ingenuity in abusing us, in spite of our apology; but we do not think that public opinion will pronounce their reply either called for or in good taste-perhaps they themselves will not in the course of a month or two. It is human...