Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this side movement, instead of making another charge on Hooker, left only a small force to watch that confused general, and, taking the bulk of his army, determined to crush Sedgwick's corps before he could escape or receive aid. But although the latter's line was long and thin he maintained it practically intact till aided by the fog and the lateness of the hour he was enabled to concentrate his entire command about a ford in his rear and retire across the river in the night. Hooker hearing the sound of battle from his position made no diversion...
...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
...mental culture which antiquity had bequeathed, others endeavoring to kindle in a new generation the ideal enthusiasm which had animated their lives. Such was the origin of universities, based, in the conception, and in the plan of their organization, upon the most perfect freedom. But we must not thin here of freedom of teaching in the modern sense. The majority was usually very intolerant of divergent opinions. Not unfrequently the adherents of the minority were compelled to quit the university in a body. This was not restricted to those cases in which the church intermeddled, and where political or metaphysical...
...courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with one of clay, and grading so that the rain would not form puddles. Here is a chance for the officers of the Tennis Association to show that they are interested in the welfare of the members, by improving those courts on which the great majority of the members...
Notwithstanding we have several lantern-jawed seniors, no member of '83, in having his pictures made, has emulated the example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...