Word: bread
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school years in acquiring an ill-regulated and superficial mass of knowledge instead of in being trained to those habits of thoroughness which are so necessary to women when called upon to take part in the practical affairs of life, whether as managers of households or as earners of bread. Therefore the committee begs that all who are interested in the education of girls will contribute toward the desired scholarship as a practical encouragement of the examinations...
...former editor of the CRIMSON, who visited the sanctum yesterday, acknowledged that the baked beans and brown bread in Memorial tasted just the same as they did in '82. He found that a Yale custom had been inagurated here since his time by the Cambridge "muckers" sitting on the college fence...
...colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...
...college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself and his gift by leaving his bequest wholly under the jurisdiction of the university government...
...also been made of the opportunities for work open to women who have others dependent on them for support, but who are prevented by domestic duties from seeking salaried positions. It is believed that important assistance has been given in the information collected and distributed concerning horticulture, silk-culture, bread making, fruit-canning, and other domestic professions. Again, it has been the aim of the Western Association to make inquiries concerning the training of women in household science. They have no desire to revolutionize society in any way, but they realize that hap-hazard ways often prevail in many households...