Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flora of America, he became recognized as the leading botanist of his generation. Dr. McKenzie was peculiarly fitted for his task of giving an estimate of this naturalist's life. He was his friend and ardent admirer, and, thoroughly understanding and appreciating him, was able to throw much valuable light on the character of this gentle and learned man. The choir sang first the hymn "Son of My Soul" and then the anthems, "Come Unto Him," by Tuckerman, and Foster's "But they are in Peace...
...place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
...second meeting, which comes one week later, the events will be: Two-handed fence vault, light and feather-weight sparring, parallel bars, standing high jump, club swinging (legitimate), fencing, and tug-of-war between...
...Minister and the Child" is different from anything that has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It is no light story, it is not a criticism or an essay. It is a description of a man who is not in sympathy with life; in whose nature there is something wanting to complete his existence. There is an unsatisfied craving for a feeling he has never known. And now an event comes into his life which shows him what is lacking, and fills the void. He is a changed man; he has a new life, not that existence he knew...
...that body and mind are two well fitting halves of a perfect whole, and that each of them has its distinct and urgent claims to nurture and development-aided by the exact methods of modern science and guided not by the lamp of observation alone but also by the light of physiological knowledge, will eradicate the seeds and blot out the remaining marks of mediaeval barbarism, and equip the members of the human family for the exigencies of the campaign of life and the demands of civilization...