Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered to stock it with various creatures that creep, and more that crawl. It is even rumored that Jumbo is to find his last rest within the classic shades of the "terminal morraine." Tufts has not indulged in the luxury of an "Annex," but it has a pond. And it has a clay pit where the crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character of Tufts is shown in the students and their societies. Every...
...there is much work for the reformer in the field of college sports; but can our college faculties remedy an evil whose causes lie in the decline in college sentiment? Undue waste of time they can easily and properly prevent by maintaining a rigorous standard of scholarship; into the rest of the field they can hardly venture, and prohibitory legislation must fail to touch the evil, while arousing resentment. The college communities themselves must work the change; and first of all it is necessary that they be brought to see the evil. In the first place gentlemen, in the second...
...cannot urge too frequently, or too strongly the necessity of every member of the university doing what he can for the Co-operative Society. While it is undoubtedly a duty for every member to aid this society as far as possible, the obligation which rests upon non-members is certainly a much greater one. These men are the persons who should now step forward and accept the opportunity offered by the society for membership at reduced rates. Only $1.50 for the rest of the year. It is true, perhaps, that just at the present time, the usefulness of the society...
...reason of the length of their history, and the influence which they have exercised on statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written...
...small amount of money, and unless $600 could be obtained the store would have to be closed. So far, $350 has been subscribed, and eight new members added ; and Prof. Ames said if the superintendent were dismissed, and a clerk or so hired in his place, expensed for the rest of the year, and in future, would be $300 or less. Mr. Taussig moved that the society be left open for two weeks longer, in hopes of raising the $600 in the mean time. It was carried unanimously. Meanwhile $67 was subscribed on the floor, and swelled the subscription fund...