Word: protection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system of church discipline - this was the end for which the college was established. Learning was valued, but it was valued for this end. Never was there a system more clearly conceived, more definitely limited, than that New England Puritanism. The great world of humanity lay around it unfelt...
...tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically seated on a tub, could be the subject only of the forlornest conjecture. The head alone was visible; and the head told...
...never so good. In all probability, Harvard can win in New York the same events as last year, and ought also to add those in which her men hold inter-collegiate records. The H. A. A. should be congratulated that its track athletes have shown themselves so worthy to protect the Mott Haven...
...complain of. We call the athletic directors hard names because they interfere with our hearts, and the same to college fathers because they interfere with our souls. But every man among us knows that Harvard is the only college in the world. Of course he does. And to protect her name, let us keep the grievances entirely inside the family...
...dislocations, a joint is taken away. This affords a rough diagnosis. splints are used to prevent movement in the joints. Burns and frost-bites are very serious. In the former, the clothing must be lifted off most carefully, and flour or grease should be spread over the burn, to protect it from the cool air. In conclusion, dislocated bones must never be set, unless the patient can be put under the influence of ether...