Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there be many who spend their recess in Cambridge, we trust that they will spend their time not as we know they ought, but as we ourselves hope to spend it. The uninterrupted period of training which is thus afforded the athletic teams will undoubtedly be spent in the most profitable way, and the college on re-opening will, we trust, see their crews and nine in a condition better even than that of last year...
...extremes of life we are much more susceptible to the injurious effects of cold than in the intervening period. "Draughts" act by cooling a part of the body through the medium of the skin...
Life should not be all work. There is a period when a youth wants an active life. This craving was gratified for us in the army life of twenty years ago. When Pierce and Buchanan were consuls, we wanted to go west. Now, too, boys want to be cowboys. The constructing and engineering departments of a railroad will gratify this desire in a more natural and better...
...waken the enthusiasm of her students. Furthermore, Harvard has inherited from the past not only these blessings, but she has acquired that tone of broad culture which time alone can give. In her the lapse of years has done so much to remove crudities that for a long period yet she need fear none of her younger rivals...
...within her sacred precincts of learning?" If we are not mistaken, solid work in sixteen courses, or their equivalent, is required before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations at any one examination period. Such a rule permits as much undisturbed "dwelling" at Brown as is possible at Harvard. We have heard of a certain beast braying in a lion's skin, but nothing so analogous to this fable has happened lately among our colleges than this Declaration of the Brunonian. When the Harvard...