Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first to begin this reform, nor successful in her first attempts to introduce it, has by a series of happy coincidences taken her place at the very head of the column and stands today by universal consent at the head of American institutions, so far as number of different branches taught in its curriculum and the number of courses offered in each branch is concerned...
Among the books lately published in the series of English History from Contemporary Writers, Senior de Mountfort and His Cause is one of the most interesting. This edition of historial subjects is a very happy idea and cannot fail to recommend itself to students interested in this branch of study. Such publications admit of a more elaborate and specific study of the details of the occurrence of early English history, and are therefore necessarily of value to the reading world. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York...
Attendance is required at nine-tenths of all the exercises in each branch of study at Amherst, and when the limit is surpassed the student is notified officially by the registrar of the college. If any more cuts are taken after notification, the student goes before the president of the college and is reprimanded. A student may save all his cuts till the end of the year and thus add about a week to his summer vacation...
...very large number of men to whom the tax of ten to twenty cents a day is a serious one. If the college authorities wish to encourage general athletics, here is a chance to do so in a very effective way, at least as far as one branch of sport is concerned. It is a pretty hard case when a man has to be sure of having fifteen cents in his pocket before he can indulge in one of the simplest and pleasantest ways of getting regular outdoor exercise. We hope that the officers of the Tennis Association may make...
...been proposed to keep an error column in cricket. It would undoubtedly have a tendency to brace up the fielding and show what an important branch of the game...