Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book home, as it were, and make it part of himself. He never 'travels over the mind' of a great author till he becomes as familiar with its beauties and its nooks, its heights, its levels, and its denths, as a Cumberland shepherd with the mountains and valleys round about his home. He never looks upon his books as his friends. It is to his head, and not to his heart, that he wishes to take them; and he only cares to keep them there till they have served their purpose at the next examination. How different...
...Baxter, '83, was one of the contestants in the heavyweight sparring. His opponent was Doherty, of Boston. The fighting was very close. Baxter, with his lame right hand, did some game work. The judges disagreed and a fourth round was fought. After it the decision was in favor of Doherty. This announcement caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of those present, who called loudly for Baxter. The cause given for the decision was that Baxter did not lead. On the other hand it may be said that whenever he approached his man the latter withdrew from the imaginary ring, choosing...
...read in the new translation of the Qur An, for so the learned call the Koran of our ignorance. Yet even here all was not peace and pleasantness, for I heard my name called by a small voice, in a tone of patient, subdued querulousness. Looking hastily round, I with some difficulty recognized, in a green turban and slid gown to match, my old college tutor and professor of Arabic. Poor old Jones had been the best and the most shy of university men. As there was never any undergraduate in his time (it is different now) who wished...
...student's theory of individual training is entirely different. He chooses men who give promise as oarsmen, and limits their exercise to rowing, until they have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until...
...newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than a decade of training, or a hundred hard races...