Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will secure Divinity B for the rest of the year, with the right to reengage for next year. Apply to the Bursar...
...found smaller than it should be, in more than one half of the cases. As the heart not only sends the blood through the body, but also receives its nourishment from it, when the food supply is insufficient or of an improper kind, the blood cannot be of the right kind to support the heart in its constant labor. In this way alcohol, by interfering with digestion and destroying the appetite, deprives the heart of what it needs. This is altogether apart from the special influence which alcohol has as a deranger of the heart's action...
...that electric lights could be supplied to the students for the same price that gas and kerosene now are. Of course, it is to be understood that the figures, as given, are merely estimates; but it is believed that in every case, whatever error there is, is on the right side: that is, that the estimates for the cost of electricity are invariably larger than necessary, while the estimate for the cost of gas is under rather than over the actual facts, so that in actual practice the cost of the electric lamps could be further reduced, thus making...
...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
There is one large stone building where instruction in the Natural Sciences is given. On the right is a good sized Conservatory, where delicate plants are sheltered in winter. The farm lies on both sides of these buildings, and sloping suddenly in the rear extends in fruitful meadows to the hills beyond...