Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard HERALD speaks of "one instructor in college" who makes it a public boast that he reads no newspapers. That would be shameful if it were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming...
...alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate the temperature of the room, so that the room...
...streets the ideal Adonis, that dignified appearance as he scampers about in his semi-nude, airy costume. Down in the basement the dull thud of falling tenpins is heard, and in the 'cage' prospective pitchers and catchers are preparing for the base-ball season. Shut up in a room with glass doors, into which eager eyes peer, the 'Varsity' crew, bare to the waist, with muscles standing out like whip-cords, bends to the oar. Five o'clock thirty minutes is the fashionable hour for dining, and in fact, is the only time the Harvard man enjoys his meal. This...
...have great powers of endurance. These qualifications, we say, must be possessed at the outset, or a man cannot hope for a place in a college or class crew, and outside these crews very little rowing is done by individual students. The improvement in the art or rowing has shut out the majority from participation in this sport. If they own boats, well and good; they can row when they like, and as long as they like; but, unfortunately, this luxury can be enjoyed only by the few. At Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Cornell less than five per cent...
Within their little hearts are shut...