Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Like other organs, the heart has its ills, some of which are peculiar to it from its formation, some from the special nature of the work it has to do. More of the other parts of the organism are able to get a rest at some time or other, and can make good this rest in repairing the waste that exercise of their functions has occasioned. The heart, at best, can obtain only a very brief respite. A fainting fit gives us an illustration of what happens when the action of the heart is much reduced in frequency, or brought...
...says, with regard to leaving Harrow for Cambridge University : "When I first went up to college it was a new and heavy-hearted scene for me. I so much disliked leaving Harrow, that it broke my very rest for the last quarter with counting the days that remained...
...number of causes have brought about this state of things. In the first place, the English department of the University has been much improved. Only two of the present members of that department, the professors, were here when the class of '82 graduated; the rest...
...future. Others are paying less regard to these studies, yet still give to them such attention as they consider necessary for the proper performance, later in life, of the functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn...
...funds to light it, has proved to be the most annoying of all our privileges, nor can we succeed even for a moment in driving the fact home, that it is absolutely useless to a large minority of the students and a cause of infinite care to the rest. We might cite a dozen cases as worthy of notice where a few dollars carefully expended would eradicate abuses which have for a generation distinguished Harvard. Notwithstanding this condition of affairs, no notice is taken of them, but all friends of education and civilization are invited to send, even...