Word: patient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John Langdon Sibley, Librarian Emeritus of the University, has been made known to the college. Mr. Sibley had been ill for a long time, and his death is no great surprise to his family and friends. In spite of the distressing nature of his illness, he was calm and patient to the last...
...singular good health of our students which has rendered the use of the unpretentious building on Holmes unnecessary. It cannot be denied that Cambridge, in the vicinity of the college at least, is a remarkably healthy place of residence. It is many years since our hospital has had a patient in its wards, and anything like the epidemic diseases which often cause other colleges to close their doors is utterly unknown to us. From the care with which our sanitary arrangements are constantly attended to, we feel sure that our reputation for healthiness will continue indefinitely...
Apropos the recent two successive defeats of the "Memorial Halls" by the "Lead Heels," it is suggested that the former nine must be getting impatient, for the old proverb declares that "patient waiters are no losers...
...persons, Prof. Barrett of Dublin, in particular. He has shown that in 31 cases there has been an actual transfer of will. 2. Mesmerism, so called from Mesmer, who first brought it into notice in Paris, in 1778. He claimed that he could cure all diseases by stroking the patient with his hands. His theory was that there was a passage of a certain fluid from one person to another, but it was disproved in 1840, by a celebrated British surgeon, who showed that a mesmeric state could be produced without contact of persons. Hypnotism, or artificial somnambulism...
...accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from the seeds sown in the beginning, what need is there that we should till the field of life with our labor or water it with our tears? Let us watch and be patient! we shall reap as much as if we worked. But this is not an inevitable conclusion; on the contrary, that very law which decrees that all things shall follow necessarily from their causes, decrees that our least effort, our most trifling act, shall not lack its proportionate effect. True...