Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole muscular power shall be fully tested, does constant violence to his nature; and if, by smoking or drinking or social excitement, he puts the spars into his physical life, he is just so far shortening his existence in the world by using up vital forces which might otherwise prolong it. It is often more important after forty that a man should arrange for constant and regular physical exercise than it is in the years when his physical powers are in the freshness of their early vigor; and the strain which men put upon themselves in active business or professional...
...German school boy has a busy life. He is compelled to attend school from his fifth to his fourteenth year. If he chooses to prolong his course he enters either the gymnasium or the realschule when he is nine or ten The gymnasium has a nine or ten years' course, and corresponds to the American preparatory school and the first two years of college. Mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, history, geography, natural history and elementary natural philosophy, a short course in logic, with elective Hebrew and English form the course of study. The method is systematic, the discipline rigorous. The students...
...succeeded by the "Collegian," which was made famous by contributions from the brilliant pen of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Then came the "Harvardiana," whose life even the efforts of a man who was destined to be one of the greatest literary men of our day, James Russell Lowell, could not prolong beyond four years. The next to enter the arena was the "Harvard Magazine," one of whose first editors was America's greatest preacher, Phillips Brooks. This magazine was published with varying success for a decade, and in 1864 came to an untimely...
...unmolested went through the Princeton goal on the first bounce. About eleven minutes had been taken to score this goal and only seven more remained before the hour and a half were up. The play of Harvard was very vigorous in an attempt to tie the score and so prolong the play. theme, however, was called before anything more was done...
...authorities of Harvard College in the matter, and as such deserves the widest circulation, we present it in full below. We still hold that the antithesis spoken of is unduly emphasized and need not necessarily exist, in spite of the Spirit's arguments to the contrary. But to prolong this controversy seems to us at present unprofitable. We need only further remark that we consider the Spirit's dismal prophecy of a "conflict" between faculty and students as unwarranted. The article reads...