Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bowdoin Prize Essay. Reading by the Winner of the Graduate Prize. The Physiology of the Nervous System of the Medusa Gonionema. Mr. R. M. Yerkes. Harvard...
...made a timely single that tied the score in the eighth inning. Matthews had little to do in the field, but batted well. He injured his leg and retired in the fifth inning. Coolidge then went to short stop and Daly to second base. The latter seemed nervous and made a costly error. Coolidge was not as steady as usual in the field, making two wild throws, but showed brilliant judgment in catching McGrath near the plate in the sixth inning. The entire team, with the exception of Wood and Randall showed poor ability to hit with...
...scene of the play is laid in the apartments of the young couple. They have been married two years and Mittelbach has become meek and subservient to the Senator's wishes. He feigns that he is near a state of nervous collapse and accordingly his doctor prescribes a journey for his health. Much to Mittelbach's discomfiture, the Senator decides that he will go also...
...present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard team lay in effective refutation. The Harvard debaters were too much confined to notes, but their delivery was superior to that of the Brown team. The decision of the judges...
...competition on account of the many pleasures which they would have to give up and the laborious training which they would have to undergo. Possibly we train too little, they train too much. The climate no doubt has an effect upon both. It may be that the nerves and nervous nature of the American enable him to get a better start in short distance races; it may be that the stamina and endurance of the Briton enable him to last better in long distances. No doubt each has something to learn from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University...