Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whatever ; it is law of a different kind from that made in the ordinary way, because it does not admit of "tinkering," save by a special process, which can be worked only by a diferent body of workmen. Hence the first kind of constitution is elastic, the second rigid ; the flrst is admirable, able to bear sudden strains without any injury to its effectiveness, and modifies itself almost insensibly, so as to satisfy new ideas, new wants, new interests. An elastic constitution meets revolution half way. But when the people live under a constitution contained in an organic written...
...arms are extended to their "full reach," the shoulders should always be kept down and back, for a shoulder movement is jerky, as well as extremely tiresome. It is unnecessary work which often severely taxes an oarsman's strength. Meanwhile the arms are kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they touch the chest, they are shot out forward...
...flesh of the Russian Government, and it is now resolved to eradicate the evil by the most rigorous measures. Hereafter the universities are to be under the immediate supervision of the police. A body of special police is to be installed within the walls of each university; a most rigid scrutiny of the doings of the inmates is to be maintained; and thus the communication of radical ideas is to be cut short. A curious part of the regulation is that, while these police overseers are to be maintained out of the Universities' funds, they...
...classmates of Young Allan Arthur at Princeton are not overpleased with the favoritism and leniency shown him as the president's son. They say that he passes successfully through all examinations, though the standard is very high and examinations rigid, and he is not a good scholar at all. He is said not to average three days in a week at Princeton and is in New York or Washington, and sometimes absent three weeks at a time...
...organizations should be allowed to play with professional organizations, and also whether they should be allowed to employ professional trainers. There can be but little doubt that no harm need necessarily follow from a contest with a professional team at the proper time and place. Professional teams are under rigid discipline ; and the opportunity for association with the members of a team during a contest, at the worst, is slight. Professional athletes are not ipso facto men of depraved natures. They are neither better nor worse than others with whom college students are brought in contact. A young man whose...