Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Times man, it is easily seen, is a miserable Philistine, whose narrow, minded prejudices should receive no mercy at the hands of an impartial public. His sophisms are too transparent to require an answer...
...means up to the mark, nervousness sets in, and the consequence of all this is that on the very eve of the race the crew is totally "demoralized." These facts are mentioned not for the purpose of accounting or apologizing for '85's defeat, but that '86, in whose success the whole university is interested, may profit by her mistakes. Should Mr. Bancroft accompany the 'Varsity to New London, let '86 select a coach at least a month before the race, that both crew and coach may have plenty of time to become thoroughly accustomed to one another. The above...
...conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than 270 of the refractory students...
...training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down to posterity, begin their work in life...
...mentions the growing importance of political study in a college course as a means of preparation for active political or journalistic life. This fact has been recognized by many of the universities of the country, and already at Columbia and Ann Arbor have been established schools of political science, whose special object is to train men for engaging in active politics. Although it seems that the scare at Harvard about the reduction of the courses in the subject had little foundation in fact, it is certain that this university has made but few advances in political subjects in the past...