Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Knapp's report on the boat-house accident which has not been made public, divides the responsibility, holding that the corporation is not entirely responsible. As it is understood that no suits are to be brought the matter will be allowed to rest on the part of the corporation...
...jauntily declares that "the danger of alienating our youth from Catholicism" is not very great as the result of a Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that in my time I have met many Harvard men and found but one a sincere Christian. With the rest of them the pursuit of a secular knowledge seemed to have led to skepticism and a thinly disguised contempt for all things sacred. [T. B. Connery, N. Y. Times...
...cries for civil service reform, which are being sent up all over the land, are but the echoes of the feeling of dissatisfaction in the conduct of our affairs hitherto; feelings which a large part of the country has now, and to which the rest must come in time. The importance of this feeling is shown in all our colleges by the increased attention paid to the study of political economy and civil government, and the eagerness with which such courses are taken. No student now feels he has a good education unless he has intelligent views on the practical...
...minutes he sent in another from the field. Some fine running and dodging b Farewell soon added another for the dark blues. One or two New Haven men made an attempt at a "Rah, Rah !" but it sounded so lonesome that the attempt was not repeated during the rest of the afternoon. A pretty play by Robinson and Farewell, of the Yale team, won applause even from the men on the opposing side. Robinson picked up the ball near the centre and started on a run for the goal. He didn't get far before a Columbia man tackled...
Prof. Clark, of Williams College, has gone on a trip to Europe, with a view of examining the methods of laboratory work in Oxford and Cambridge. He also intends to visit the German universities and then go to Naples, where the rest of his time will be spent. There his work will be mostly of a zoological character...