Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...common affairs of the college as the idlest of the idlers. The men who at entrance inclined to be listless, are, under the new system of electives and honors, becoming eager in study; on the other hand, the men to whom the habit had made "digging" a second nature are unbending socially. Either class in this way is exercising a wholesome influence over the other...
...advising any other American representatives to stay at home, they tell us to keep on rowing, striving as heartily as we have done, and perhaps the next generation of Englishmen may meet us on the water as equals. At present it is deemed but idle for even a second-rate crew to measure oars with the best we can bring out. There is a good deal of bombast in this, and reminds one of a bully who boasts when thinking himself safe from fight. We have never rowed but once with an English university, and at that time, although beaten...
...Agassiz, since he was an uncompromising opponent of Darwinism, did not produce a work in refutation of the theory of evolution. He had arranged with the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly for a series of articles on this subject, the first of which appears in the next number. A second, fortunately, has been dictated and taken down, but not finally revised; it will probably, however, be published. Perhaps he entered upon this work rather reluctantly, inasmuch as he always had held that a better understanding of nature, a closer investigation of the facts upon which the theory is based, would...
...second number of a modest little journal called the Lehigh Journal has come to hand. Let it not attempt too much, is our advice (gratis...
from the following statistics, in which the first column of figures shows the number of rooms occupied by students in the different buildings, the second the number of rooms in which windows were open at 8 A. M. on November 19 (clear weather, thermometer 25 F.), and the third column the number of rooms in which windows were open at the same time on November 20 (partly cloudy, thermometer...