Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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NEXT week the University Nine begin their Gymnasium work for the winter - five hours' exercise each week...
...Endowed with intellectual tastes and moral characteristics, and accustomed to the prosecution of studies, all eminently fitted to prepare you for your great work; familiar with all the departments both of pupilage and instruction in the Institution, within whose walls you have been nurtured and almost domesticated, as in a second home; your judgment enlarged and strengthened by the ripened fruits of foreign travel, and the observation and study of the best processes of education at home and abroad; receiving a generous and cordial welcome from your learned and accomplished associates to their companionship and chieftainship; and added...
...perhaps it is well to indicate, rather roughly at first, those pictures that seem to rouse deeper attention than the others, and to be the most likely to repay further serious study. This is all that we, at least, attempt. Care must be taken here, as always in studying works of art, to distinguish between excellences or defects of execution, - the language of art, - and those of thought and feeling which the language clothes. The former requires not only vast knowledge of technicalities, but also of the aspects of nature; and as this knowledge is possessed by comparatively...
WHAT may be called the legislative period of our boating system is drawing to a close, and hereafter we shall have but to chronicle its practical workings. The past week has seen the completion of a new boat-house, with bridge, float, and necessary appurtenances. The new house joins the old. The lower story is spacious enough to accommodate all the club boats, and each club has a range of rests for itself. The upper story will eventually be partitioned for dressing-rooms. And now the crews are commencing work which will decide whether the handkerchiefs at the front shall...
...begins his work by pointing us down into the abyss of the unknowable. Alpine travellers tell us that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet...