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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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"NATURAL HISTORY 4. Geology," &c., as above. "The two-hour course will consist of lectures, in which will be explained the formation of the beds of rock on the earth's surface; formation of glaciers and the theories of their movement; volcanoes, their source and causes," &c., &c., in detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DESCRIPTIVE BOOK OF ELECTIVES. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

SOME time ago, I was talking with a young lady of Boston who is much devoted to art. She was complaining of the great difficulty in getting models, that is, intelligent faces to copy. Suddenly she asked me, jokingly, "Why won't you come in and sit for us, Mr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST A STATUE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

Moreover, in the department of Fine Arts there is a much needed course. Now it takes at least two years to go over the history of Art, and to accomplish this at least nine hours of electives must be devoted to it. But there is here an excellent opportunity to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ELECTIVES. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

FIFTY thousand dollars has been left to the College by Mr. Jonathan Brown Bright of Waltham. Half the sum is to be devoted to maintaining five scholarships, and half to purchasing books for the Library.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETORT COURTEOUS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

THE next addition to the building of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which is to be built by means of the Agassiz Memorial Fund, will be almost wholly devoted to laboratories, lecture-rooms, and work-rooms, and will furnish necessary facilities for instruction in biology and geology.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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