Word: branch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Longfellow next introduced Gen. Armstrong, prefacing his introduction with an account of the two societies in Cambridge organized for the aid of the Indian race, - a Branch of the Woman's National Indian Association, which aims to directly benefit the Indians by personal help and by missionary work in the West and at the schools, and a Branch of the Indian Race Association, which devotes its attention to the protection of Indians...
...tennis courts were opened yesterday, and were also used by a few enterprising players, who were over anxious to get to work. Tennis is the great college game, and in the opinion of many people is the branch of athletics most deserving of encouragement, in that it has for its devotees such a large majority of college men. With the beginning of the tennis season, which will probably open with all its former activity at the close of the recess, must come also the much talked of "shack." Any measures, which the Tennis Association could adopt, to rid the college...
This can be done, first, by all classes of citizens uniting in choosing school boards of liberal character, who will see to it that nothing sectarian be admitted into the teaching of any branch or in any regulation, and secondly, by having only one session, closing at one o'clock, so that pupils may devote their afternoons to their catechism or to whatever their parents wish...
...which in truth he knows only the first rudiments. The teacher does not feel sufficiently called upon to become acquainted with the exact state of his pupil's knowledge. So it comes about that or promotion into a higher class, a boy is allowed to give up entirely some branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading, writing and geography" are the first things a boy is taught in school, he naturally gets to consider them as elementary and childish...
Here are eight years spent in instructing a branch which we are ready to throw aside after two or three years. Might not our University try to remedy this evil by applying some severe test in this branch of study at the admission examinations...