Word: personating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heart itself, and the waste of the system is washed out more completely and a large supply of fresh material is borne to all parts. While the exercise is within any reasonable bounds, the heart beats increase some twenty or thirty a minute over what they are when the person is at rest; in spite of this increase in number, the character of the beats is regular and even. When the labor is excessive the heart will become tired, the pulsations very rapid, but feeble, and unless exertion is brought to an end mischief will follow. Disease of the blood...
...faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication of energies is responsible. He cannot claim consideration as a pessimist, for a pessimist (according to the latest receipt) must be sadly cheerful, while he makes a very ordinary and unpoetic kind of a person out of himself by his querulous ways. Now for the coroner. He is sometimes a freshman, sometimes a grind, and always a crank. After a three hours' trial, he leaves the examination room, feeling, perhaps, well satisfied with his work. Soon, however, he meets A. and B., with whom he eagerly...
This habit of defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
...cooked so as to be mealy, otherwise the saliva cannot do its whole work. Excessive muscular exertion immediately before or after a meal is injurious, as by this means blood is drawn away from the stomach. The student should put away all thought of study when eating. For a person in health few rules are best, and perhaps the following are as good as any. Give no thought to the working of your digestive organs. Do not eat by formulae, scientific, or otherwise, but eat wholesome, well cooked food, what you want and as much as you want. Leave...
...unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person who will claim that external observances prove inward convictions? What right has any one to prefer upon mere hear-say the gravest accusations that intimate knowledge can justify? We have probably, in full abundance, all the vices of other young men, but what justice is there in stopping there in denying...