Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...demons, can be pretty thoroughly made out. In the sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy, considerable progress was made. Numerous astronomical reports exist. There are also writings showing the beginning of grammar, legicograhy, medicine, botany, zoology and geology. The enormous number of books relating to the social and private life of the people is reserved for the next lecture...
...last Vesper Service of the year is announced for this afternoon. The remarkable success which these services have met during the past three years shows conclusively that they fill a distinct place in the life of the University. They certainly constitute the most popular religious service we have. It is a service intended primarily for the students, and is one which must always appeal especially to them: it comes at a convenient hour, at the close of the work of the day, when every one feels that he can take a half-hour for recreation; it is not long enough...
...hardly necessary to hope that the Vesper Services will be continued next year. The success of the past three years, if the stamp of the hearty approval of the students can accomplish anything, has certainly made them a permanent fixture in the life here...
...contrasted with the subjective idealism of Byron, Browning and Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...
...languages. At Amherst College athletics are put upon this broad and high basis, and the result is that every Amherst graduate is turned out a well developed young man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought up on athletics in their youth. They did not ride bicycles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never done much to keep a sound mind in a sound body. The almost total neglect of bodily exercise among...