Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the Columbia School of Political Science has recently been distributed among the students, in which the advantages Columbia offers in the pursuit of this study are set forth. There is undoubtedly a great need that the young men of the country should be educated for the political branches of the public service as well as for the other branches, and for this purpose such an institution has been founded. But a glance at our catalogue will show that, although we make no pretense at having a school of political science, our courses in political economy offer better facilities...
...illustrated by a schedule upon the board. By this it was seen, that in 1860 Harvard led in this respect and has maintained this lead ever since. At that time one half of the senior year was devoted to the study of Bowen's Political Economy ; in 1870 this branch had been increased to two courses, one required and one elective, and at present Harvard offers more courses than even Columbia, with her School of Political Science...
...played, as the pioneer daily of Harvard. In the sophomore year the Herald was started, but the impossibility of having two daily papers, which depended largely for their support upon a college world, was so evident, that during the junior year the Herald was without competitors in its peculiar branch...
...much pleasure, and frequently with much discouragement. Second, this continues (provided the discouragement does not prevail) until the reader finds some one production which really appeals to him. The author of this becomes in his estimation the only one worth reading. Third, from this he at length begins to branch out, and, having once appreciated the force of literary beauty, he gradually learns to appreciate it in other writers, and to distinguish their excellencies from their defects. From this, Mr. Wendell draws his plan for studying literature. He recommends, in the place of any systematic course of reading, a general...
...speaker of the evening, Mr. Rowland Hazard, of Providence, confined his remarks to that branch of industry which employs wools as its raw material. The distaff and spindle and the hand card were first used in wool manufacturing, and these were improved from time to time through the various changes until quite recently, when James Hargraves used the first cylinder cards and the spinning jenny. Now a couple of boys at the end of a spinning mule can do the work of five or six hundred women with the old-fashioned wheel. The speaker reviewed the introduction and increase...