Word: personating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third of the series of six lectures delivered in the chapel of the Divinity School will be given next Tuesday evening. These lectures are given by persons connected with the University and present an excellent chance of hearing men whom one does not meet in the lecture room. Next Tuesday Professor Norton is the speaker, and his subject, which treats of the different phases of intellectual life in America, is of interest to all here. This chance of hearing so eminent a person should not be thoughtlessly thrown away...
...nations of antiquity, the Greeks were the first to conceive the idea of perfect unity in dualism and to reason it out to its fullest extent. They recognized the truth that physical soundness is the basis of mental and moral excellence. They saw in a person's gait a key to his character, and strove to realize that beautiful symmetry of shape, which for us exists only in the ideal, or in the forms of Divinity, which they sculptured from figures of such perfect proportions.' Early in the history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon...
...sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely recommending to his son, the governor of New Jersey, a course of life that would make his heart and stomach perform their functions healthily. Whatever may be the one best form of exercise, if a person is to have only one, it is certainly not boxing...
...examination period has begun once more, and, in offering the compliments of the person to our readers, we take occasion to remind them that even if they have concluded their work for any particular day there is a chance that the other men in the building have not, and that noisy embullitions of joy are not a source of equal pleasure to their neighbors and to themselves...
...operative Society purchased on orders about seventy good seats for the first week of Irving's engagement, although with some difficulty as no more than ten seats would be sold to one person for one night...