Word: solidness
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...Necessarily, Structural Geology must be distinguished from those other divisions, Paleontology and Mineralogy. This course deals only with the forces which have led to the structure of the earth's crust. It is an elementary review of the great agents of formation and change in the character of the solid parts of the earth. It is manifestly out of place to introduce in a study of this kind specimens of fossils and metals. The inspection of these would doubtless be interesting, but when the studies are as distinct as Structural Geology and Paleontology on the one hand, or Mineralogy...
...College thinks it very wrong for classmates to live together, and consequently I have here men of every class, description, taste, and habit, mingled together. I know of but one entry in college where the opposite is the case, and there, while the students lose none of the solid benefits, they gain many of the lighter enjoyments of college life...
...Wesleyan and a schoolmaster-that Harvard men are distinguished by a materialistic and atheistic look. Like an iceberg, they can be discovered at a great distance by the chill that floats around and with them; for, after entering college, the religious feelings of most are quickly congealed into solid infidelity by the influence of the Cambridge school of Theology...
...every boarder, at his seat, along those solid rows...