Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MOORE, '73, of Philadelphia, has recently presented the Peabody Museum of Ethnology with a case of specimens, which consist of Egyptian Antiquities, and a collection from the Swiss lakes, that represent the flint and bronze ages...
...Sedgwick passed most of his earlier years at Lenox, in Massachusetts. He was then sent to a Swiss school, and afterwards to St. Paul's School, at Concord, New Hampshire. He had devoted himself to the profession of law, and perhaps his strongest ambition was to do well in this profession, in which some of his family had been distinguished. But it may be doubted whether, even if he had not died so young, he would have had health vigorous enough to allow of his accomplishing this or any other wish that he might have had at heart. Those...
...Swiss had earned their Lion...
...quiet in the Papal palace. The stillness is only disturbed by the shouts of a detachment of the Swiss Guard, who are busied over a bowl of holy-water punch in the cellar, and the monotonous chanting of a relief-guard of bishops, who are cursing Bismarck with all the form and ceremony of the Church...
...method of gymnastic training; and it is really a useful accomplishment. Fencing trains the eye and will, develops the figure, throws back the shoulders, and gives a more erect and graceful carriage. In all European colleges, fencing is considered a most important element of perfect education. In the Swiss college towns, all riding-masters and maitres-d'armes are required to give lessons at half-price to the students. Harvard has taken the lead in adopting what is good in the management of European colleges; why not imitate them in encouraging the physical development of students? As fencing is easily...