Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute the air. Pleurisy not only affects the lungs but the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned, as a strip of leather. The same results may follow from the destruction...
...vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does not see it. Granted that there are greater temptations, and more immoral influences here than at any other college, does it follow that the graduates of the university are any the less men, because they have come into contact with wickedness? Who is the manlier, he who has never tasted the pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality...
...about the large class of students who come here with tolerably good characters and intentions? Are they benefitted or harmed by the vice which surrounds them? A moralist of the old school would be shocked at the thought of a man's character being strengthened by contact with wickedness. But such is unquestionably the case. If indeed, his knowledge is of vice which is repellent and disgusting, then, although he may be all the more firmly resolved to shun it, he will be no stronger in character than before; it is only when vice takes on a pleasanter and more...
...glance at statements, glaringly false, made in their best and most representative publications. In England laboring men have frequent opportunities to hear lectures from and to talk with men trained in the knowledge of these subjects. This is what is needed in America. Let practical economists come in contact with the organized laboring classes and teach them the fundamental principles of the science. The revolutionary socialist cannot help us. There is still time for our efforts to be preventative. The deepest wrongs will be remedied only as we assent to the evils and bend all our efforts to remove them...
...readily seen, the main purpose of the Nations is to bring together men of common ties and sympathies, and, by this union, to bring them, in turn, into contact with all the rest of the university men. This system works admirably among our Swedish brothers, and it would seem to recommend itself to favor among students in American universities. Nothing can be more pleasant than acquaintance with men from one's own state or city, and frequently the acquaintance would never be made unless by some such method as this...