Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when the effect follows speedily on the cause. When there is considerable lapse of time between cause and effect, our perception of the result is not so clear. The use of alcoholic liquors, opium and tobacco are examples of this fact. We know how much the Greeks and Romans thought of exercise for promoting health. Cleanliness was a virtue well established among these nations. Lack of cleanliness is the cause of a large proportion of the deaths to-day, for we, on this continent, are at the mercy of the dirty people on the banks of the Ganges. The reasons...
...leaving anything of value outside their doors. As a natural result of the condition of the turf in the yard and of the severity of the weather and of rather lax efforts on the part of the yard authorities, that most objectionable element of Cambridge society, an element the thought of which means quite as much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What it can put its hands on, it takes; what it can destroy, it destroys...
...first base; Bremner, '86, catcher; Sheppard, '87, left field; Marsh, '86 S., centre field; Hiskox, '86 S., short stop; Stagg, '88, third base, and Willet, '89, pitcher. O'Dell, '86, pitcher of the final game with Harvard in 1884, is still suffering with a lame arm. It is not thought he will be able to play. Brigham, '87, of the winning '84 nine, will occupy his old position in left field. J. F. Cross, Hudson, O., a graduate of Western Reserve, and now in the Theological School, will try for short stop. He has played in the West, is quick...
...this country. Before deciding to come, however, he received repeated assurances from various sources, that it would be a profitable trip to him from a money point of view. In reply to these supposed allurements, he said that he would come, if he came at all, because his friends thought he would aid the cause of science in America, and not a dollar would he carry out of the country...
...occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice to some rather remarkable opinions, a consideration of which it was thought would be interesting, especially to the class of men spoken of above...