Word: possession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...modern languages, in which extensive facilities will be offered for linguistic and literary study. But in many directions, especially in scientific work, in chemistry and geology and in the school of arts, the instruction is limited. The true friends of the college fear, however, that it does not possess sufficient elasticity and progressive vitality to expand into a great university, responsive to every need of the age, and especially they fear the conservatism of its trustees who do not seem to sympathize with the great intellectual movements of the present century...
...fifth of the mortality is due to consumption, and in some other States it is even larger than this. Many men who have large chests and apparently well developed ones, are yet deficient in depth and respiratory power. To the casual observer a flat, depressed chest may not possess especial significance, but to the trained observer it is a signal of danger. Of course all deaths from consumption are not due to imperfect chests, but the fact that the majority of patients so afflicted are deficient in this respect goes far toward verifying the assertion that if proper care...
...made up of those who give most of their time and energy to boating, base-ball, foot-ball and general gymnastics. Those who take part in these sports are chosen on account of their peculiar fitness for the position to be filled. A candidate for the university crew must possess at the outset a large and vigorous frame, must be especially strong in the back, loins and legs, and have great powers of endurance. These qualifications, we say, must be possessed at the outset, or a man cannot hope for a place in a college or class crew, and outside...
...although he has never before taken much exercise, and consequently is not yet hardened, seems to possess the right sort of material for a good oar. At present he is sometimes a little behind on the catch, swings too far both forward and back, and rows with bent arms and elevated right shoulder...
...make no statements at random," it says; "proofs are in our possession. Yale wins her games by systematic preconcerted evasions of the rules of play. Yaleism is this-an underhanded and constant evasion of the rules. This, kept up for an hour and a half, told on the matches with Harvard and Princeton, and won for our New Haven brothers the championship. We cannot offer them our sincere congratulations for such victories. We do not wish to charge Yale falsely, and are ready to hear what she has to say, but she must show stronger proofs than...