Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ. What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college? It is asserted that it loses influence through want of support by any sect. It appears to be indifferent to religion. There is a fallacy in these assertions. One may enthusiastically believe doctrine, and yet be opposed to forcing it upon another. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant...
...should be, in more than one half of the cases. As the heart not only sends the blood through the body, but also receives its nourishment from it, when the food supply is insufficient or of an improper kind, the blood cannot be of the right kind to support the heart in its constant labor. In this way alcohol, by interfering with digestion and destroying the appetite, deprives the heart of what it needs. This is altogether apart from the special influence which alcohol has as a deranger of the heart's action...
...entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
...Amherst Student that the fellows at Amherst are grumbling considerably about the ill success of their nine last year. As yet the grumbling seems to have no practical effect. But the editors of the Student fear that if the present state of things continues, the nine will be poorly supported. Men will take no interest in the gymnasium or out-of-door practice of their team, nor will they give it a generous support. A nine with such half-hearted backing will be very likely to fail...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...