Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases of fainting, all tight clothing must be immediately removed. The bloodless face of one who has fainted shows a like condition of the brain, so it is often necessary to lift the feet far above the head that the blood may return to the brain. When you use water, do not mince matters at all, but let the patient have plenty of it, and that square in the face. In cases of convulsions, be careful to protect the patient from hurting himself. Something to prevent the teeth from coming together should always be put in the mouth...
...itself at the beginning of this year will never have to be solved again. We trust, however, that the spirit of improvement which has animated foot-ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been in the foremost rank of reform, and on this account also we are glad of her re entry...
Comparing the relations of the scholar and the laborer, Mr. Hale concluded by saying: "Their life is our life. Our life is theirs. They know it, and we know it. Man of work or man of letters, our duty is the same-to lift up what has fallen down, to build higher the courses of the national life, to see to-morrow better, happier, stronger than...
...present scrupulously restrained from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf of this society as well as in behalf of the thirsty freshman that we now lift up our voices for reform. The water which is furnished to the dormitories is of such a quality that while it hardly could be said to be drawn from the river at low tide, we are puzzled to imagine where else it could have been procured. There is hardly a pitcher...
...recognition of our power to read the classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration. But this is not enough. We miss the accustomed classical readings which have been given us in past years, and lift up our voices in remonstrance. We cannot feel satisfied to allow one of the most beneficial and practical applications of our classical knowledge to pass into disuse. No method is equal to that of the classical readings offered us in past years in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the various authors...