Word: mens
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Classics. It is far more important that I should know the derivation of the names of my medicines than their chemical composition; the terms of anatomy than the science itself. It is better to know that AEsculapius raised the dead, than to understand the art of keeping men alive...
...their danger, and, bending to their work, succeed for the first time in making any headway against Hooper. In the eighth inning several base-hits in succession are made, and four of six runs earned. TWO "whitewashes" close the game, though, as on several previous occasions, the Harvards get men on the bases; but these only offer a chance for a double play, which is taken advantage of by their opponents...
...Circus.WE visited the Modern Hippodrome, generally known as Lent's Circus, on Tuesday night. From the private box politely furnished us by Mr. Lent we viewed with wonder the performances of dogs, horses, men, and women, and with melancholy mortification the proceedings of some of our younger fellow-students who greeted the athletes with very peculiar shouts and cheers. It was our intention to tell of the Museum and Menagerie, - how we winked at the Circassian Girl, shook hands with the Fat Man, and solved the mystery of the What Is It; but our space is too limited for these...
...some - what mythical personages forthwith entered upon an extended tour in company. For months their popularity continued undiminished. The hit made by this combination was immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...
...influence of the College will be best ascertained if we look at the religious life of the students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...