Word: primed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information, and at the same time form a style, those reasons ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will read one new book every week, and will do this for fifty years. This...
...purpose of the school is to give a complete general view of all the subjects, both of internal and external public polity, from the threefold stand point of history, law and philosophy. Its prime aim is therefore the development of all the branches of the political sciences. Its secondary and practical objects...
...person inherits will play a large part in determining what degree of health he shall have, for men resist the influences to which they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion...
...students. The 'Hopkins House of Commons' was incorporated. The officers were to be as follows: 1, a speaker elected twice a year, who was to have all the duties of the same officer in the English House of Commons, and, besides, the executive power of appointing the prime minister; 2, a prime minister, who was always to belong to the majority of the house; 3, a foreign secretary; 4, a home secretary, who were to assist the prime minister in deliberation and debate - the two secretaries being appointed by the prime minister. The speaker was also to appoint a sergeant...
...fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime consequence." Under the influence of a volition, a student works under no disguises, he is forced "to be conscious of what he is doing," to perceive "that gains and losses are immediately connected with a volitional attitude...