Word: chair
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THROUGH the generosity of the late James Arnold of New Bedford, the University will be enabled to establish a great arboretum on the Bussey-farm property, West Roxbury, and to create with it a chair of arboriculture, the first in the United States...
Startled Soph. - It - it's under my chair, sir: I wasn't using it! - Acta Columbiana...
SCENE: U. 24. Professor By-Path's Seniors are crowding the benches. Freshman Tutor Sleet is in the chair. Professor By-Path, it seems, is cutting...
...Unitarianism. . . . We shall be glad to receive from Dr. Clarke a definition of 'non-sectarian theology,' describing in detail the manner in which it is taught, and the view it takes of such questions as the Atonement, the Trinity, etc., . . . and telling us whether the chair or chairs from which it is to be taught in the Harvard Divinity School can be or will be filled by Congregationalists, or Episcopalians, or any body but Unitarians. Some explanation of this kind is due both to the subscribers to the endowment and to parents throughout the country who are asked to consider...
...recent appointment of Mr. Charles E. Faxon of Jamaica Plain to the chair of botany, of Mr. Edward Burgess of Boston to that of entomology, and of Mr. L. S. Ford, a graduate of the School, to the position of demonstrator in zoology, fills out the corps of instructors in the Bussey Institution to the original complement of seven. This department of the University is better fitted than ever before to give systematic instruction in the branches - agriculture, horticulture, and the knowledge of domestic animals - to which it is specially devoted...