Word: strength
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the way in which the fencing of Saturday degenerated into wild thrusting and a reliance upon strength instead of skill, it is understood that those in college who are instructed in this sport will soon meet and draw up a new code of rules for the judging of fencing bouts. Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly favors the plan...
Health and Strength. Open to all members of the University. Dr. Edwin Farnham. Sever...
Under the supervision of the new Dean of the Scientific School, Prof. Chaplin, the facilities for a practical application of the scientific principles, taught in the various branches, have been greatly increased. The lower rooms of the building have been fitted up with elaborate apparatus for testing the strength of building material, and the students take a very hearty interest in their work. Every effort to raise the standard of the Scientific School nearer to the level of such institutions as the Institute of Technology, the School of Mines, or the Stevens Institute, is to be praised and encouraged...
Health and Strength. Open to all members of the University. Dr. Edwin Farnham. Sever...
...moral lesson? If it be true that the only method of giving moral guidance to Harvard men is to shut them up in a large room, and force it into their unwilling minds, the lessons will be of little use. Is it not plain that moral teaching gets its strength, not from the fact that men are made to hear it, but from the fact that they are willing to receive it? In Dr. Hale's own words, - "no one was ever compelled to pray, or ever can be." We urge, therefore, with the deepest sincerity, that moral teaching...