Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases of this sort will soon put a stop to the nuisance, and we shall then experience the novel sensation of taking our exercise in peace upon our own grounds. We hope that the manager will not delay in carrying out his purpose, and feel sure that the students will gladly subscribe to pay for the added expense for the nine...
...clock. Then studies again from two until four, when the assembly for drill is sounded. Two hours of drill follow. Then supper at half-past six. There are two hours of study in the evening. Taps sounds at ten o'clock. The drills are varied and embrace every sort of practical exercise that a naval officer requires in the various duties he is called upon to perform. In the spring and fall, infantry, artillery, naval tactics, gunnery and seamanship drills are the programme. During the winter the classes drill separately, having fencing, boxing, dancing, gymnastics, signals work in the rigging...
...youth to-day are too much inclined to hurry. In the travels of Baron Munchausen, we read of a man who had to have cannon balls tied to his feet to prevent him from running too fast. Would it not be well to tie something of the same sort, say, four years of college life, and college training, and college education, to the legs of all the hasty and over-ambitius fortune seekers...
...Royce abounds in philosophle smartness of this sort, and he has the junior modern's faith in no faith. * * * * Practically, the whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of the book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science...
This is the scientific age; everything is now governed by rule, everything is bound by precision. And in the strides that the world has made during the past century, it is strange to see how our athletics have evolved from a sort of chaos into sharply defined, well regulated sciences, requiring the action of mind as well as of body to perfect them...