Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rejoice that the Hollis pump has again been restored to its old position of dignified usefulness. Alone it stands, its old companion in arms, the Massachusetts pump, being still to infirm to assist in the good work of quenching the thirst of the parched students. It is strongly suspected that the revival of one of these landmarks, or rather yard-marks, has been brought about by the Total Abstinence League in the hopes of turning aside the stream of humanity which frequents at this time of the year the neighboring beer saloons. Whether this suspicion be true or false...
...that the library affords the opportunity. The student should reinforce his prescribed work with judicious and extensive reading. He should read around all the subjects that come before him in the regular course of his study, so far as possible, and he will experience gratifying surprise, if his thirst for knowledge is genuine, in finding how much more communion with many minds regarding a single manifestation of truth will do for him, than an unqualified reliance upon the unsupported opinion of one. A man who follows this method will find his collegiate course a much more profitable one, than...
...being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system is not a success at Yale...
...what he had to do. Beef and mutton were the foundation of the diet, and oat meal, graham bread, cracked wheat and vegetables were all good, but pastry, condiments and made dishes should never be used. He believed in letting a man drink all the cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary to reduce the weight of a man and get the fat off him, it must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned...
...Senate committee on commerce has added $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats to the river and harbor bill. The Senate bids fair to increase the total appropriation of the river and harbor bill to more than $20,000,000. The House will probably concur. The thirst for the surplus is by no means assuaged...