Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret societies no longer "sing through the yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder if the Glee Club gathered on the steps of Holworthy or Matthews, and gave an hour to the entertainment...
...which ought to be taken to alleviate their distress." The arguments which were advanced have already been presented to eastern audiences many times. But the chief interest of the meeting centered in the two Indian students who accompanied General Armstrong. They, in addressing the audience, proved at least one thing, that they feel deeply the wrongs of their countrymen and would spare no efforts to abrogate those wrongs. From an educational point of view this meeting was of great interest. Many opponents of the plan which calls for the education of the Indian claim that he cannot be educated, that...
...thing there can be no doubt. While other colleges stand aghast at Harvard innovations, while presidents of the McCosh school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...
...played in New Haven this year, they must go to work in earnest. The Harvard freshmen will have an unusually strong nine, as may be judged from the fact that the change battery of the university nine belongs to the freshman class. We would not prophecy such an unprecedented thing as defeat for a Yale freshman nine, but would warn '89 of the disgrace which would fall on them if through carelessness such an event would be allowed to occur...
...cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none of them enter the brain, there could be no such thing as sensation, and parts of the body might be badly injured without the person knowing it. The law of eccentric projection is that by which we refer sensation to the end of the nerve on which it is received, instead of at the point of contact with exciting cause. Neuralgia...