Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open competition; or for either a stake, public or admission money, or entrance fee; or under a fictitious name; or who has not competed with or against a professional for any prize or where admission fee is charged; or who has not instructed, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood, or for gain or any emolument; or whose membership of any Athletic club of any kind was not brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such a club...
...athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon the college of two hundred and fifty of the most active and most popular of the undergraduates, who through the pursuit of athletics are made to lead regular and whole-some lives, is a very important consideration in college life which is often overlooked, and it is very gratifying to find that a man like Professor Peabody, who is by his position particularly fitted to judge, has arrived at this conclusion...
...drawn to any profession merely by the expectation of profit is very likely to be disappointed. To others the law forms a most attractive and fascinating pursuit. Certainly the maintenance and development of justice is the pleasantest of all occupations...
...eleventh the narrator sees the same rascal making a pious speech at a funeral, by which he manages to collect a considerable sum from the sorrowing relatives. In the last one of the series the fellow repents and becomes a noted saint, carrying with him into his new pursuit the same eloquence which had served him so well in his former life. Mr. Jewett explained carefully the many allusions to Arabic poetry and traditions, and illustrated the incidents by his own knowledge of the customs of the East...
...amount of work required to the total amount demanded of the postgraduate." This may be all very true, but our correspondent evidently is oblivious of the fact that a great many men come to the Law School direct from preparatory schools. They come to prepare for the pursuit of a particular profession; and, although they may shine in the bright galaxy of that profession, yet it does not at all follow that they are all that a degree of Master of Arts would require them to be, or would represent them to be. The degree...