Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper ventilation during the hours devoted to work and sleep is of the first consequence, and can best be attained by the use of open fireplaces instead of the usual furnace, which rarefies the air to an injurious extent. Plenty of exercise in the open air in agreeable company will prevent...
...Tobacco as a luxury is considered a proper commodity for taxation by all the leading governments of Europe. (a) The repeal of the entire tax means cheaper tobacco and increased consumption: i. e., the increase of a great evil. (b) The repeal of this tax will involve the retention of taxes on the necessaries of life...
...buildings will form the central part of the front of the projected University Museum, of which the Museum of Comparative Zoology now forms the northern wing, while the Peabody Museum stands at the eastern extremity of the southern wing. Another large lecture room will also be provided, and proper consideration for the feelings of the students certainly demands that it be placed a few flights lower down than Professor Shaler's present lecture room...
...atrocious war, which was persistently waged for so many centuries against the human body and its proper treatment, was most disastrous in its physical, intellectual and moral results. It destroyed the roots of ancient beauty and symmetry, and produced a series of corporeal deformities, distortions, disfigurements, weaknesses and imperfections in both shape and development, which, transmitted from generation to generation, are still conspicuous in the great masses of people. Happily a reaction in favor of the Greek point of view with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning...
...sometimes that degrees of the same grade granted by the same college do not always mean the same thing. This is true of the degree A. M. given by Harvard. A graduate of the college may obtain this degree by pursuing for one year a course of study under proper direction. The amount of work required is generally the equivalent of four regular courses. Candidates have often done irregular and desultory work and yet obtained the degree. If, on the other hand, a graduate enters the Law School, he must apply himself very closely for three years...