Word: inspecting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Francisco Post tells how a crew of amateur oarsmen were taken in and done for. The boys were waiting for a belated member of the crew, when a well-dressed and modest young stranger strolled into the boathouse and began to inspect the equipments with great interest. This is the way it turned...
...priceless privileges of the Harvard student always to feel the proud consciousness that he is an integral part of a great and peculiarly interesting show, to which all distinguished men travelling in this country feel themselves in duty bound to turn their attention and to carefully inspect. Scarcely a day passes but we are flattered with the information that the famous Mr. So-and-So, the netted scholar and author, or Mr. Blank, the world-renowned actor, has been visiting the college. It cannot be said, however, that the role of posing as a phenomenon...
...there are no schools of any kind in the country villages where the three R's are regarded as wholly superfluous luxuries. The mathematical and historical teaching is very deficient, and the whole system of instruction needs much improvement. There is a story told that a commissioner sent to inspect one of the schools where mathematics was somewhat lamely taught, asked the professor of mathematics how many right angles there are in a triangle. The professor after deliberating a moment or two asked permission to consult with his colleagues before answering. The next day the professor replied, not without pride...
...then opened and each voter steps up and deposits his ballot in the box, has his name scratched on the check list and then retires to give place to another. The check lists, it may be said, are made out two weeks beforehand, and are open to public inspection. The voting begins at 10 A. M., and at 6 P. M. the polls are closed and the contents of the ballot box being turned out by the government commissioner a count is first made of the number of votes, which is verified by comparison with the check list. Then...
...Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all of the modern college gymnasiums of the country. It is certain that scarcely and gymnasium has been newly fitted up, or any plan of physical culture adopted at any neighboring college, but that it has seemed necessary beforehand to inspect the building and methods of Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction a part of the college curriculum...