Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...development of biological teaching at the University of Cambridge has been rapid and successful. One branch of it, that of animal morphology, has been created there by Mr. F. M. Balfour, and it has grown to its present importance through his ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university...
...account of Columbia's boating interests given by our correspondent at that college, bears evidence to the fact that there is no decline of interest in that branch of athletics, at least, with his classmates. Reports from other colleges likewise show that faithful work generally is being done this year in rowing. This is surely the case with us ; and the steady work of our crews should certainly receive more recognition, and they themselves should receive a more liberal support throughout the college than can fairly be said to be accorded them at present. Our winter athletic meetings were certainly...
...since their departure no sufficient revival of interest has taken place to bring out new representatives who will sustain Harvard's former prestige and note. We hope that the spirit of our rowing men may be awakened in this respect and that renewed attention may be paid to this branch of aquatics...
...particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation has by a liberal education formed, as it were, an index in his mind, to which he can refer. A large field of thought has been opened to him, each separate branch of which he has not pursued to any great degree, but with such slight knowledge as he has gained, he knows where to refer when any subject is under consideration. To the ordinary business man the fields of science, language and fine arts are practically closed, but to the college graduate...
MANTEL MIRRORS.-This branch of manufacturing is now carried on extensively in Boston at PAINE'S. They also are importers of gilt and bronze frames from Italy and France. Some very fine heavy carved frames in Florentine gold leaf have been put in their ware-rooms on Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot...