Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brief time in which a man surveys the work of the half year, if he has done his studying systematically, is one of the most valuable periods of his study; for it gives him an idea of the broaden and unity of what he has hitherto seen only in detail. In these two respects, I think the mid-year system of examinations have advantages which hour examinations can never supply...
...Boat Club and the Tennis Association have accepted the plan under which this committee was chosen, and have presented their accounts for examination. They have also made estimates of their income and expenditure for the present year. This committee have to report on the accounts of these organizations in detail as follows...
...pains to investigate the management of the hall is a man of very high standing in New York City, and his purpose was of the most disinterested kind. The results of his investigations as partially given in our article of yesterday, show that he approached the matter in detail, with the earnest purpose of suggesting real and practical improvements. The proposition that the college ought to employ a salaried official to control the actions of the steward and to keep an actual watch on the nature of the food served, in place of continuing the absolute farce of a student...
...interesting informal talk before the Finance Club, on the effects of the tariff on the cotton manufacturing industry. Col. Livermore was, for many years, the superintendent of the Amoskeag cotton mills at Manchester. He was a most successful manager and knew the business of cotton manufacturing to its smallest detail. He was therefore well fitted to talk of the effect that an increase or reduction of the tariff would have on that industry...
Last Tuesday evening Prof. Cohn gave an excellent lecture in Sever 11, in which he treated in detail the causes which forced President Grevy to resign. President Grevy is a man who has rendered great service to the French nation, and is consequently highly respected. His resignation was called for only as a measure of last resort to preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment...