Word: resort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...health resort in England they steep sea weed for an hour in boiling water, and then cooling the water slightly, admit the bather, who remains in twenty minutes, and comes out, it is alleged, greatly strengthened and refreshed. This might be an advantageous improvement over the present method of rubbing down weary athletes with whiskey...
...buildings, a lecture hall, a dormitory and a gymnasium, while still another dormitory is still to be erected. The site of the college is a high hill in the midst of that picturesque and undulating country near Bryn Mawr which is so deservedly popular among Philadelphians as a summer resort...
...students to regulate their own conduct, and as yet has drawn up no "rules and regulations" respecting their conduct, so that all exercises, including chapel, are voluntary. So far this arrangement has worked very well and the faculty now believe that they will not find it necessary to resort to the more customary, but less ideal methods of college government...
...popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour or two and yet always are on the rank lists. Such men appear wonders...
...feeling prevalent among many graduates that these celebrations were signs of the demoralization due to the new ideas of government at Harvard. They expressed a willingness to leave the entire subject to the students, if it could be checked in that way. The students were unanimous in deprecating a resort to forcible measures by the faculty, or the abolition of inter-collegiate sports. They strongly urged an appeal to the better sentiments of the entire body of students, and the government of celebrations by organized methods on the part of the students...