Word: circular
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Reading-Room Association will do no canvassing this year, but will print a circular containing a list of its periodicals...
OSCAR FAULHABER, Ph. D., has announced by circular a summer course of six weeks in the pronunciation and idiomatic use of the French and German languages. The course is to be given in the building of the Robinson Female Seminary, at Exeter, N. H., and it will doubtless be both pleasing and profitable...
DEAR SIR, - I am now having printed, and shall soon mail to the leading colleges, a formal circular announcing the fact that next year the National Association will inaugurate races open to collegians only, and inviting correspondence as to the style of races preferred, the time and place of the Regatta...
Henley. - The Regatta Committee announce in a late circular that they "wish it understood that this regatta is open only to amateurs," and that they "reserve the right to refuse any entry." That is, without defining an amateur, they announce that they will only receive amateur entries, and then leave it to their stewards to decide what an amateur really is. It would seem that some body of men might take the matter in hand, and give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always...
...circular for the new year is almost ready. The subjects in mathematics for the contest of 1879 will be analytical geometry and calculus; Professors Simon Newcomb, P. S. Michie, and A. Hall will examine the competitors. In Greek, the "Panegyricus" of Isocrates, and the "Iphigenia in Tauris" of Euripides, will be required; also analysis of verb forms, use of moods and tenses. Familiarity with Greek prose composition with accents, and with the words and constructions used in the "Panegyricus," is expected. Professors Charlton T. Lewis, A. Harkness, and Henry Drisler will be examiners. The remaining committees will report soon...