Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee having in charge the Harvard-Yale debate complain that already several of the placards announcing the debate have been stolen. The placards are, to be sure, very attractive looking, but it is rather an ungraceful way of showing one's appreciation of the fact to tear them down before they have had any chance to accomplish the object for which they were printed...
...began by saying that I had no wish to renew the Battle of the Books. I cannot bring myself to look upon the literatures of the ancient and modern worlds as antagonists, but rather as friendly rivals in the effort to tear as many as may be from the barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both...
...trip has not yet been obtained from the Faculty, but the cities talked over were as follows. New York, Philadelphia or Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo and Albany. The aim will be constantly kept in mind of shortening the distances between the cities, thus reducing the wear and tear of the journey to a minimum. The active work of rehearsing in the Glee Club will be begun next week. The officers expect an excellent club...
...Athletics are more necessary now than formerly. - (a) Conditions of life at present unfavorable to sound physical development; Popular Science Monthly, vol. 24, p. 730. - (1) Life is faster; Saturday Review, vol. 58, p. 465. - (2) Wear and tear on nervous system is excessive. - (3) Incentives to mental work much greater now than formerly. - (b) City masses need healthful recreation. - (1) Concentration of population into large cities has been rapid; Popular Science Monthly, vol. 24, pp. 730 and table. - (c) Increasing knowledge demands the exercise of greater brain power; Ibid. p. 731. - (d) This increase in athletics...
...said that many men have a distinct desire to enter literature, but at the same time do not feel enough confidence in their abilities to permit a definite choice of letters as a life-work. At the same time their love of books is so strong that they cannot tear themselves away from them. In a publishing-house, run on the large scale of many at the present time, a variety of openings is offered to just such men as these. If the applicant for a position in one of these houses be a college-bred man with a wide...