Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university, deals with the discoverer of America in a manner essentially different from that of any other author on the subject. The aim seems to have been to present carefully collected facts in a way which will enable the reader to form the most real and accurate idea possible of Columbus as a man. Few men have been more written about and had more romances invented to fill out what they ought to have been, but in this work, special pains have been taken to separate the legends from the facts...
...model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea of the tale is rather extravigant, vet it is well-worked out and the diction is more coherent than in some of its author's last efforts...
...were new men, and the work yesterday was mostly in the preliminary points in rowing. The work for the next week or so will probably consist of a half hour on the weights, followed by dumbbell drill and a run. It will be some time before much of an idea can be formed of the various men, although they are all pretty good sized. The men who showed up yesterday were: Baldwin, Brewer, Keyes, Winslow, Batchelder, Dunn, Pike, Hawes. Falk, Broughton, Duffield, Farwell, Collamore, MacAllister, Cockrane, Rivers and Ware...
...Thursday for an all day's ride to Milwaukee. From St. Paul to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where dinner was served, the railroad runs along the left bank of the Mississippi and the scenery is fine. But again an entertainment had to be provided inside the car. A good idea of the daily life of the men may be had from a description of the manner in which the fellows amused themselves on this day for it was a typical one. The two factions mentioned before, sprang into existence on this memorable day and the morning was signalized by the formation...
...Pfeiffer then described rather hurriedly the digestive organs, to enable him to speak of the ancient ideas of digestion. Starting with the idea of its being a sort of putrefaction, ideas progressed through various stages until, by ingenious experiments, it was found that the object of the stomach was to dissolve the food. In the next lecture Dr. Pfeiffer proposes to treat of the processes of digestive fermentation...