Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to realize perfectly how much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent...
...smoky and black. The chairs, which were very massive and heavy, were arranged around the walls of the room, and the table was set before them. Their bill of fare was also very simple, consisting mostly of cheese, bread, meat and wine. They were hearty eaters, but through the restraint of their out-door life and exercise they seldom drank to excess...
Congressman W. C. P. Brechinridge continues the tariff discussion. Madame Adam sketches "Society in Paris" in a very gossipy and fashionable newspaper style. O. B. Bunce argues effectively that the reading public in America is much smaller than that of England. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr pleads for more restraint and modesty in our conversation that it may be better suited virginibus puerisque...
Life at Amherst is so entirely different from life at Harvard that it is difficult to draw a comparison between the two colleges. Amherst men live under the restraint of faculty regulations so numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks...