Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based on personal profit) through the various phases of animal life. In the lowest life no evidence is apparent that the creature realizes the existence of anything outside itself. In higher forms we discern the germ of the nervous system, and later, a keen appreciation of the outer world. But no trace is visible of sympathy, ("the going out of the mind into fields of life beyond it self"), until we reach those animals in which the sexes are distinguished. The sexual and parental instinct is the beginning...
...calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order to make perfect bodies and clear heads the three should be combined. There are probably no sports more invigorating than skating, bicycling, and riding horseback, but if carried to excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming...
PLUCK.Prof. Stillman argues from a study of the instantaneous photographs, taken by Mr. Murybridge, that the speed in animals and in men depends on conformation of muscular tissue and "much also on the nervous energy or will transmitted to the muscles, technically known as courage or pluck...
...story haunted New-gate-street on melting days, and imbued with very much the same feelings. He feels amply qualified to join the active throng before him ; he feels an almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play, just as some people of peculiar nervous constitutions can never see an expense train dashing by a platform without an insane desire to jump at it. His hair has no touch of gray about it, his step is elastic, he still sticks to his cricket or rowing club, he is in every way a healthy, active, full-spirited...
...think that the popular cheer is not so much influenced by the peculiar forms of college cheers as the Times would imply, and that its growing short, sharp and brittle sound is merely the result of the combined influence of the climate and of the rushing, brisk and nervous character of the American people...