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...technical department, the business department, the department of physical training, the normal department for the training of teachers, the department of lectures and evening classes, the library and reading room, and the museum. Each one of these is admirably fitted up and is most suited in every way, to afford the very best instruction. The tuition is very small, practically free and there are 160 endowed scholarships. The library and museum which must require time to grow have already a good beginning; the former contains room for 75,000 volumes and has some very valuable manuscripts, the gift...
...what we are to expect, however, the treasury of the crew is not going to be filled to overflowing with money of the glee club's giving. The college would have no cause for grievance in this if it felt that the club had given what it could afford to give. But there is a belief that there was considerable unnecessary extravagance last year, that money was spent in ways that the glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects...
...Tarbell is the first permanent resident head which the finances of the school have been able to afford...
...display of the greatest ingenuity; the life of a book may depend on the skill with which it is brought before the public; and, in general, the competition among different firms compels advertising to be novel and brilliant, to be eminently successful. Other departments of publishing also which afford good opportunities, are illustrating, management of agents' work, and subscription editions, and so forth...
Among Ari's writings are the Saga of the history of the Norwegian Kings, the Christni Saga, and the Eislandinger-Bok. The purpose of this Eislandinger-Bok was to afford a narrative of events particularly interesting to Icelanders. While the authority of the former works is sometimes questioned, the authority of the Eislander-Bok is undoubted. This book was the primer of Icelandic history...