Word: restless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team arrived at the Aldine Hotel at half-past eleven this morning. The journey from Cambridge was made comfortably and everything was done for the convenience of the men. It has been raining hard all day and Franklin Field is very muddy and slippery. The players were restless at being kept indoors and the light signal practice this afternoon was a great relief. They are all in good spirits and splendid condition and feel quite confident of being able...
...track athletics more than in any other sport is liable to be of a "dark-horse" nature, to crop out in quarters where least expected, and a captain's work consists in searching out just such material and testing its unknown qualities. The track captain is in a constantly restless condition. No matter how good a necleus of pointwinners he has, he inevitably feels that there are men whom he might get hold of, who could jump or run if they only know it. The sports for which he is responsible, are not such as of necessity require the previous...
...Jean Jacques Rousseau that we must attribute the renovation of French literature. Now the characteristic of this writer is his leaning towards sensibility. He is mobile, restless and capricious. He believes thatinature is good, that society is bad. He introduced himself to the world in his "Confessions." It was under his influence that French literature was to undergo a great change...
...Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...
...this capacity his wise foresight gave to the Graduate School at its foundation the constitution which it has since retained without substantial change. In the years that followed he avoided on the one hand the iron conservatism common among the founders of systems, and on the other the restless pursuit of change characteristic of the professional reformer. He has devoted himself to an unceasing, patient and judicious study of the needs of the School, and he has been enabled thereby to introduce numerous improvements in administration. It shows the breadth of his mind that the multitude of administrative details which...