Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Life is like one great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the divine company of human souls may rise and rise in strength. Those who subscribe to this view possess the best culture, and those who are true to this principal are cultured and none others. Culture is not in the possession of things mental and material, but the way in which...
...Sumichrast will be temporary instructor in French during the rest of Prof. Bocher's absence...
...Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with ice being far more productive than the rest...
...range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches the sea, while the water is there 600 feet deep. Great pieces of ice continually break off with a loud noise, and these icebergs cover...
...hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition was made, the chief burden of practical teaching had begun to rest upon men like Professors Macvane, Emerton, Young and Doctors Hart and Channing. They had already introduced new courses and new methods of illustration, so that gradually the historical department was being transformed...