Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as the fact that city colleges draw their students mainly from residents of cities, who are familiar with vice, tends to lower the moral tone of the students; and he adduces many facts in proof of his position. There is undoubtedly much truth in this view. Large colleges certainly have a large ratio of dissolute-or, put it less harshly, wild-students than smaller institutions. But this can be truthfully said of their vices: They are more gentlemanly and less vulgar than those practised...
Although the Hemenway Gymnasium was only built in 1879, yet it has been found necessary to replace some of the flooring of the running track. Hardly a better proof of the constant use to which the building has been put since its erection could be given. Nor could better evidence be given of the long felt need which it supplied and of the esteem with which it is held by the students than this same use. That it has been popular both with the faculty and students since its start is a matter of congratulation. As soon...
...those selected when they realize that their position is not dependent upon the favor of the captain, but upon their own merits; better playing on the part of the captain himself, who now often remains idle, that he may see his men in practice before choosing, etc. As a proof that the idea is feasible, the supporters point to the crew where the plan is carried out to some extent, but they desire a much more comprehensive arrangement, and hope to place the entire management in the hands of the board they seek to organize...
...honorable thing for you to cut prices, for services at your hospital, 100 per cent less than the regular practitioner charges; less than those your own graduates will have to charge on order to make a loving, or to keep on collegiate terms with other professional?" In proof that his question is founded on fact, he submits various figures going to show that the school is offering to work much cheaper that a professional could, which looks as if the school was "trying to run the veterinary profession of Boston and vicinity into the ground." Mr. Billings in stances...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...