Word: listlessly
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...Prussian minister of education, has issued a circular ordering that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. For some time public opinion in Germany has been much exercised about the physical condition of the boys; they were good scholars, but listless; inactive, unenterprising, often appallingly short-sighted. A remedy is to be sought not only in gymnastics but in cricket and foot-ball and other out-door games requiring skill and agility. It is a wise ruling...
...P.II. From Miss FLORA BADFLIRT, at Cambridge, to Miss LILIAN LISTLESS in New York...
...impotent rage; while the listless peignoir...
Such a set of men as the old "digs" used to be is rapidly growing smaller. The best students are now getting to be as active in the common affairs of the college as the idlest of the idlers. The men who at entrance inclined to be listless, are, under the new system of electives and honors, becoming eager in study; on the other hand, the men to whom the habit had made "digging" a second nature are unbending socially. Either class in this way is exercising a wholesome influence over the other...