Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Classical Club, which was started during the last term is in a flourishing condition. The members number over twenty-five...
...Cambridge there is at some colleges, a longer term allowed before a man must go in for the first of the three university examinations, but otherwise the general tenor of the system is similar. Fear of encroaching too much on your space prevents me from entering into many details which might be of interest, especially as to the papers set at the various examinations, of which I regularly receive copies...
...colleges, and as a consequence the character of the highly educated men who graduate from our colleges and erect such a powerful influence on the community is becoming irreligious. It is agreed that morality can not be taught without religion, so let religious truth be distinctly taught. The term, 'non-sectarian college,' practically means this: 'All Knowledge Imparted Here Except Religious.' The position that young men are likely to take under such a loose, half-hearted religious system, is that of agnosticism. The place occupied by religion should be honorable and unmistakable. Never has the question 'Is life worth living...
...constant smoker has lost in muscular strength. For safety, a smoker should take plenty of exercise in the open air, and do his smoking in moderation after meals. Do not smoke on an empty stomach, or use very strong tobacco, or an old foul pipe. By the term hypertrophy of the heart is meant an increase in the size and weight of the organ, due to the development of some one of the elements of its walls. The term is generally used of muscular development only. Almost any cause which increases the action of the heart may bring it about...
...achieve the distinction without the benefits of a college education; second, that in any given position a college graduate is worse off than a man who has never been to college; third, that the men who are graduated, from college are worse off at the end of a term of years than they would have been had they never gone to college. We do not think that any one of these three propositions can be proved...