Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...schools, supported by government, which were formed in the beginning of the century, by the enlightened Mehemet Ali, the founder of the present dynasty, are well organized and embrace a pretty thorough course of study. They are divided into civil and military schools, the latter of which include every branch of military education. The former are subdivided into primary, secondary, and special schools. Three years are spent in each of the first two; four years in the last. In the primary schools are taught the reading and writing of Arabic, arithmetic, and French; in the secondary or preparatory schools Arabic...
...take no part in these college games, and not one man in five, probably, will ever see his name in print in connection with any athletic event during his entire course at Cambridge. A few words to those men who from various reasons will not enter into any special branch of athletics will not be out of place at this early date in the college year. Probably most men who enter Harvard have never had such opportunities for general physical development and muscular training as are now furnished by the new gymnasium, with its splendid system of physical examinations...
JOKE.The college year at Harvard began on Thursday. The attendance at the School street branch of the university is as large and as punctual as usual.-[Gazette...
...hundred dollars, and fifty dollars, for short essays on the best methods of appointing executive officers, and selecting laborers in municipal governments, and the terms and tenures most suitable to municipal offices. Competition is open to all who may choose to write, and the whole subject or any branch thereof may be treated. It is expected that the essays will be examined by President Francis A. Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Shaler of Harvard University, and Richard H. Dana, Esq., of Boston. Accepted essays will become the property of the Association and will probably be printed...
...faculty committee on athletics at Princeton has tendered its report. The entire matter of college sports is to be given annually in charge of a committee, each member of which is to have control of a particular branch of the college athletics. Only four days will be allowed for the New England tour of the base ball team...