Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...through dissipation. Far better is it to spend one's time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives little rest and less contentment...
Prof. Trelease closed his lecture by saying that however the subject of botany was considered, either as the result of a direct order of the Creator, or that of slow growth and self development, it was worthy of the greatest attention and study of mankind...
...excellence of some meetings of past years. The events will all be well contested, and some good work may be expected. The tug-of-war naturally will excite the widest interest, and from the work which both teams have done, a closely sharp contest will be the probable result. But we again return to the old cry of delay, both at the beginning and in calling events. The custom pursued in the Technology meetings of calling each event at a stipulated time despite possible absences, might not result in a satisfactory solution of the problem, but there is little doubt...
...body, the perspiration serves to throw off from the system worn out matter. If the perspiration is stopped by any means as cold or otherwise, these substances remain in the blood until some other organ takes upon itself the office of expelling them. Disease is a not an unfrequent result of this. The only matter which is formed in the sebaceous glands protects the skin from cold...
...fact that "some sixty per cent. of her students come from outside the state, a large proportion from the West;" that the Western colleges have been improving rapidly of late, and that thus the competition with Yale for this Western contingent is increasing from year to year, - the result of which is detrimental to Yale. Mr. Bourne wholly forgets the fact that Harvard's percentage of undergraduates from the West is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, is growing rapidly and continually. What explanation can he offer for this, other than that which Mr. Page has already given...