Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present rowing advantages which Yale has over her competitors, it has been decided that a new tank is not only desirable but necessary, While Yale is thus showing energy and enterprise in boating matters, Harvard, in marked contrast, is apparently doing nothing to advance her interests in this branch of athletics. The defeat of last year has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that under present conditions Harvard's chances of winning are practically worthless. If we would compete with Yale on equal footing we must have a rowing tank...
...annual report of President Barnard on the condition of Columbia College has just been published. The part referring to the graduate department is of special interest to Harvard, as Columbia, in this branch, is the only American college which can at present compete with our own University. Columbia is now considering the advisibility of raising the whole scheme of education to a higher plane, to give more attention to the advanced students than to those in the other departments...
...Probably both Houses, and certainly the lower branch of Congress, would be in political sympathy with the President, obviating the danger of deadlocks and fixing political responsibility on one party.- G. Bradford's "The Practical Working of Our Government...
...leading colleges are as follows: At Yale, 24 to the seniors and juniors per year, to the sophomores and freshmen, 18; at Williams, 30 "cuts" from chapel and recitations; at Dartmouth, 25; at Amherst and Wesleyan a student must be present at nine-tenths of the recitations in each branch; while at Michigan University and John Hopkins, attendance at lectures and chapel sapractically optional...
WANTED, a competent tutor in Latin and Mathematics for the summer months. One who intends to be in the vicinity of Long Branch, N. J., this summer. Room 8, 20 Prescott street...