Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order that a gymnasium should be of the greatest service to a University, it should be so situated, constructed, and equipped as to fill the same place in the physical life of the student that the library, laboratory, class room, and museum fill in his mental life. The trend of physical education is along three lines: first, toward perfecting the body as a machine; second, toward obtaining individual distinction in different varieties of athletics and gymnastics; and third, toward the cultivation of group games and team-play, where, the individual learns not only to work in harmony with others...
...most discriminating speeches I have ever heard the Senator from New York make, Dr. Eliot is the dean of the teaching profession, and has made that profession, already great and influential, the leading profession in the country. He has brought the university into such relation to public life that we cannot fail to owe him a great debt of gratitude for having elevated public life in the way the university spirit represented by him has elevated...
...best salubrity in the world, probably the best that has ever lived, has just left the country in order to impart some of his salubriousness to the Darkest Africans. The true salubrity is one who joys in life, in associations with his fellow-beings, and loves to be a good fellow among good fellows...
...Bangs was graduated from Columbia in 1883, and studied law there for a year, but never practiced. Instead he accepted the position of associate editor of "Life," which he held for four years, only leaving to become editor-in-chief of "The Drawer." In the capacity of editor he has also been connected with "Harper's Magazine," "Literature," "Harper's Weekly," "The Metropolitan Magazine," and "Puck." Since 1905 he has devoted his entire time to writing...
...Northfield Conference is a conference among college men upon matters which are closely related to the religious life and welfare of each University, upon the best means of furthering Christian activities among students, and a frank presentation of the claims of Christianity upon the various professions and callings which students are likely to enter...