Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Museum is a disappointment, yet as our friend said, "it is young you know." We enter the Chemical laboratory, but feel constrained by the size of the room and depart. We pass from room to room, hall to hall, gaze at this and wonder at that, until in sheer exhaustion, we descend to earth again. We pass out thro' the "Reception Room." We look about for the Amherst man, but with a shiver we become conscious of the gaze of a pair of stern eyes that bespeak the man of blue, and remember that we must hurry to the depot...
...fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...
...sheer folly to wait for disaster to come and then trust to luck to extricate ourselves from the danger, when by a little exertion on our part we can make ourselves comparatively secure. Afire once started in any of the older buildings would increase with frightful rapidity, and it would be only by the most prompt and well-directed effort that loss of life could be averted. It seems as if the Athletic Association might take the initiative, and organize companies for practice with the apparatus, for some one must be first in a movement like this, and an organization...
...recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share his enjoyment with others. Dearly as he loves...
...college course offer opportunities for bringing his body into a healthy and muscular condition which no man can afford to lose. In this period of a man's life many structural defects may be eradicated by a course of gymnastic training under scientific supervision, and it is sheer folly to throw away such a chance of bettering our bodily condition because of sensitiveness or laziness...