Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen him by striet discipline and training, morally, mentally and physically. His progress is carefully watched, and where the system is properly enforced, the prisoner knows that his final release depends altogether on his own conduct...
Accordingly Rosecrans moved on Bragg, who awaited him at Murfreesboro, on the Stone River. Each general arranged his line for the battle next day, intending to attack and crush his opponent's right. Rosecrans, however, was so intent upon this purpose that he failed to strengthen his own right, and as Bragg struck his blow first and luckily found this one weak spot, the rebels came within an ace of winning a decisive victory. The Union right was forced back and routed, but Sheridan and Thomas stood firm in the centre and, by magnificent firmness, repelled
...that graduates in Cambridge, whether temporarily or as residents, would make use of the club. Thus both graduates and undergraduates would be brought into occasional intercourse with each other and it would be fair to hope that a greater unity of feeling arising between them as Harvard men would strengthen their common attachment for the University...
Jaffray is from Westminster School, and will probably play one of the guards in the game today. He has played on the 'varsity in most of the big games up to the present, but is now a substitute. He will strengthen the centre...
...educational experiment that starts at Yale this fall is the course in modern novels under Dr. William Lyon Phelps. The purpose of it is to teach students to read standard novels in such a way as to strengthen their faculties instead of debauching them. The course is popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...