Word: shapely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is an attempt being made to establish an annex in the shape of a college for women under the protection of Columbia...
...given up to these festivities almost entirely. The Glee and Banjo Clubs give their semi-annual concert to-morrow evening, and as they are each in splendid trim an excellent concert is expected. A unique feature will be introduced, which will create great mirth if nothing more, in the shape of a quartette of the poorest singers in college, it being a physical impossibility for any one of them to carry a tune. The Ivy Club gives a tea to the patronesses of the assembly from three to five, to which about two hundred invitations have been issued, and with...
...predicted now the personnel of the nine will be about as follows: Mercur and King, pitchers, while it is doubtful who will catch; Ames, Brownlee, Conner and Young all being prominently mentioned. Dana, '91, will probably cover first, though Rodgers, '90, is showing up in very good shape. As to second it is impossible to say, but W. Price, '88, seems to be the best man so far, while L. Price and Wagenhurst will play their old positions at short and third respectively. There are a number trying for the field and it is impossible, to say who will play...
...very few schools in the country where boys are taught the literature of America. This is a crying evil and should be remedied. The question is how to do it? The editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from the eyes...
...which was persistently waged for so many centuries against the human body and its proper treatment, was most disastrous in its physical, intellectual and moral results. It destroyed the roots of ancient beauty and symmetry, and produced a series of corporeal deformities, distortions, disfigurements, weaknesses and imperfections in both shape and development, which, transmitted from generation to generation, are still conspicuous in the great masses of people. Happily a reaction in favor of the Greek point of view with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled...