Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professors at Andover, on trial for heresy have been acquitted except Egbert C. Smyth, Brown professor of ecclesiastical history. The chair in this branch has been declared vacant...
...ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices, or as salesmen in branch stores at popular seashore resorts. The most numerous body are applicants for positions as tutors, either of boys fitting for college or of children whose parents wish them to learn to love science by intelligent observation of nature...
...opportunity to decide upon the constitutionality of the legal-tender laws, before those laws had been passed by Congress, a different decision might have been made. As it was, the laws came to the court with all the prestige of the approval of a co-ordinate branch of the government. The decisions of the court show a marked tendency toward granting increased powers to Congress. In the second decision the court took cognizance of the economic questions involved in the issue of inconvertible notes. In the final decision the court refused to ask itself whether paper currency was economically wise...
...meeting of the Athletic Association was well conducted but lacked interest as many of the events were not closely or well contested. The first game of lacrosse in the championship series gave fresh evidence that in this branch of sports too, Harvard intends to stand second to none. The large crowd that attended the game was well rewarded for coming...
...Mattie Sargent" carried for the third year the '88 delegation, while the "Curlew" and the "Emily" performed the same service for '89 and '90. The "Curlew" was gay in blue and white streamers, while the "Sargent" flew a green and white flag, and carried a large apple-branch with white blossoms at her mast-head. The Union boat-house and the adjacent roofs were all covered with people as early as four o'clock, while the wall was lined with spectators and the road behind filled with carriages; quite a flotilla of row boats clustered about the stake-boat...