Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale is attempting to "bully" Harvard into rowing, as we have heard it suggested. That is not true. The attitude which Yale has assumed has been gentlemanly in every way. Every member of Ninety should look into the matter for himself, and remember that he has a duty to perform to the University as well as to his class and to himself...
After all, it has come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...
...Pierian and Glee Club will perform the Largo of Handel together, at the spring concert. Professor Greenough has written Latin words for the chorus. The Largo has never before been presented in this way, and will probably be a very great success...
...have seen that oxygen for the most part is taken in through the lungs, and the act which they perform taking it in is called respiration. At the back of the mouth are two passages leading downward, the one in front going to the lungs. The act of breathing requires that this trachea, as it is called, should be kept open all the time, so there are placed in its walls rings of cartilage which are incomplete in some part of their circumference. The epiglottis, fastened to the back part of the tongue keeps food from falling into the windpipe...
...some extent their studies has not been shown by our experience to be well founded. Doubtless a few indolent persons will elect what they regard as easy work. But they will even then accomplish as much as they do when forced to attempt hard work, which they never perform except in the most perfunctory manner. No plan will make the college career of lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should...