Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anywise changing their qualitative character as separate pleasures or pains, would at once alter their value. A single moment in a hour's or day's experiences if it has an organic connection with our previous life, has a value that may outweigh the dullness of all the rest of the hour or day. So we estimate our own lives not at all as aggregates, but as organisms. Even so with other men's lives. We must value human life as a whole, not through addition of happy and miserable men, but with respect to the unity of the whole...
...following twenty-five men have been elected members of the Hasty Pudding Club from '85 to form an electoral committee for the election of the rest of the club from that class: Atkinson, Baldwin, Corroll, Chanler, Codman, Crocker, Curtis, Delano, French, Gardiner, Homans, Howard, Hoyt, Lawrence, McArthur, McCook, Mumford, Simpkins, Storer, Storrow, Taylor, J. E. Thayer, Trask, Weed, Winthrop...
...reeling back upon the main army. This was a complete surprise, and took Hooker completely aback. He seemed dazed, and in this emergency was knocked senseless by a shell striking a post on which he was leaning. This accounts largely for his slow and comatose action during the rest of the battle. with very little to check him, Jackson was pressing forward and had almost pierced the centre of the Union position when he was compelled to reform his men for a second attack. While reconnoitering in the dusk he was mortally wounded by a mistake...
...their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident...
...fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed the same service two years ago. At the same time he examined into the methods pursued by Ward in coaching the University of Pennsylvania. He has now an eight in a barge, and the rest practice in a four-oared shell. The season being earlier at New Haven and the water not so ice-bound they are rowing on the water. The men are lighter than last year, but are making good progress. Appleton will be the permanent stroke. Their stroke this year is slower than...