Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Body and spirit are indivisible-both are essential parts of man. The former was given to the latter as a necessary instrument without which it cannot act. They are two halves of the same being, and their harmonious development s conducive to human perfection. For the term of their earthly pilgrimage they are more inseparable and more independent than the horse and its rider. Hence we must improve. strengthen, enrich and harmonize the powers of the physical organism before we can reasonably expect to see aptitude, energy, talent and learning grow on the tree of life. That alone...
...winter training that brings out the winners in the spring contests, and if the Mott Haven cup is to reappear here it will come about by the labors of January and February continued through March and April rather than by the late attempts of the latter months alone...
Bumpus and Foley were also members of the same team, the former pitching while the latter played in the field...
...good-sized audience, composed chiefly of students, assembled in Sander's Theatre last evening to hear Mr. Clarke's lecture on steel bridges. In a few words, President Eliot introduced the speaker, but omitted, as the latter facetiously remarked, to mention the fact that he was a graduate of Harvard. Mr. Clarke began by stating the importance of modern bridge-building and the rapid progress which has been made in the branch within the last fifteen years. One of the greatest undertakings of the age is the spanning of the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, by a massive bridge, 3094 feet...
...afternoon would only exercise proper care in using the water, there would be much less inconvenience. The water is wantonly left running, men abuse and smash the apparatus, and chairs and tables have actually had to be substituted for wire ropes on the large centre shower-bath because the latter were broken by men who used them as flying rings...