Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of the Atlantic Yacht Club have set on foot a movement having for its object the construction of a big sloop from designs made by Phil. Elsworth, whose success in the past warrants the belief that he can turn out a vessel capable of defending the America Cup from the cutter Galatea during the coming season. It is stated that the greater part of the money required to build the boat has been already subscribed and that she will be called the Atlantic...
...attention as they consider necessary for the proper performance, later in life, of the functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print...
...distinguish so many of our sister-colleges? Is it that the tone of student thought is unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person who will claim that external observances prove inward convictions? What right has any one to prefer upon mere hear-say the gravest accusations that intimate knowledge can justify? We have probably, in full abundance...
...three feet lower down, was a space for the evolutions of the chorus, and still further towards the audience sat the band. The tragedy was shortened, being divided into a prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn a terrace looking towards the abode of the Delphic Oracle, the shrine of a Doric temple with the Furies lying about asleep, the temple of Pallas built in the Ionic style, and the summit of the Areopagus. The scenery is said to have been on the whole, very effective...
...night we shall discuss digestion and in turn take up the various factors in this very important process." Saliva, the first factor, has a mechanical action, by penetrating all through the food in the mouth, it makes the work of grinding it up by the teeth much more easy. It is an alkaline fluid, and has the property of changing starch into sugar. Mr. Huxley's model man would eat 12 oz. of bread and 6 oz. of potatoes every twenty-four hours...