Word: branch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debating societies hold their first meeting tonight; and we hope that they may be good meetings. These societies are cultivating, and with no mean speed, an increasing interest in debating. The position which this branch of education formerly held in the University was nothing short of absurd. In a country where good public speakers are a government necessity, and where the number of such speakers is at present distressingly small, it seems beyond comprehension that young men in a position to make themselves good speakers should wholly let slip the opportunity...
This department is able, by the subject of its work, to put much of its instruction into highly attractive form. There is probably no branch of study which offers, all modes considered, greater advantages for this, and the management of the department has been shown time and again to be resolved that these advantages shall not be lost...
...prospects for football at Andover next fall are good. Capt. Durand, Pierson, Holt, McIntosh and Chadwell will be in their old positions, while Branch and Hine will probably fill the positions for which they were substitutes last year...
...eastward to the Atlantic and down the coast to the Carolinas. Another migration seems to have started in the Pueblo region and sent off-shoots, possibly at intervals of hundreds or thousands of years, north to the neighborhood of Utah and northeast to the Great Lakes. Of the latter branch were the mound builders of Ohio. The people of the northwest give indications of Asiatic admixture, and those of the southern migration are somewhat like the inhabitants of the south Pacific islands. These facts give some strength to the theories of the origin of the earliest tribes. On the eastern...
...slight change has been made in the management of athletics at Williams, and instead of the manager having full power as before, he is now asked to consult a member of the faculty and an alumnus who, with himself, constitute the controling committee of the particular branch of athletics he represents...