Word: personation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...derived from the cards of former years, we have, under our hands, the most complete system of training, admirable for its simplicity and thoroughness. The merits of such a manual must needs recommend it to every one's attention as a careful study of the wants of the average person who frequents the gymnasium, although it supplies, none the less, the advice sought by those following any particular line of training. The treatise forms first of a series which will include special works on gymnastics and athletics. Succeeding volumes of this series will be watched for with the greatest eagerness...
...exactly his fault, for he figured it up that were he fined every day, with eighteen dollars a month wages, he would have three dollars, which would take off all the profits. This should be remedied, for it is bad enough to be ill-fed when a person is able to be out and about, but when confined to one's room it is more than disagreeable...
...person shall assume the functions of trainer or instructor in athletics upon the grounds, or within the buildings of the college, without authority in writing from the committee...
...found - one whose purse would stand such a heavy drain - who would be willing to give five or ten dollars to supply the gallery of the chapel with singing-books? We would not be so bold as to ask for such a luxury as half a book for each person, but if there would be at least one singing-book for every five persons, instead of every ten, as is now the case, we should appreciate it greatly. It world, we think, add materially to the in crest of the performance during the time of singing if the majority...
Lost. - Will the person who took by mistake from Memorial Hall a handsomely bound copy of "Boccaccio's Decameron," Vol. I., with a paper cover over it, please return the same immediately to W. Curtis, 28 Stoughton...