Search Details

Word: englishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...last debate in English 6 takes place on Thursday, May 23, at half past one. The following question will be discussed: "Resolved, That unrestricted Chinese immigration is detrimental to the welfare of the United States." The debaters are Messrs. Ayers, Evans, and Thorp, in the affirmative, and Messrs. Keyes, Macfarlane, and Mulligan in the negative. All members of the University are invited to attend the debate, and all who intend to take the course next year are requested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...next debate in English 6 will take place on Thursday, May 8. Subject, - Resolved, that Grouchy was responsible for the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. All members of the University are invited to be present, and will be permitted to leave at any time during the debate, which begins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...will be admitted to the instruction for women who presents herself at the Harvard University Preliminary Examination for Women, and passes satisfactorily in any eight of the following subjects: 1. English; 2. Physical Geography; 3. Botany or Physics; 4. Mathematics 1 (Arithmetic; Algebra, through equations of the first degree, including Proportions, Fractions, and Common Divisor); 5. Mathematics 2 (Algebra, through Quadratics; Plane Geometry); 6. History; 7. French; 8. German; 9. Latin; 10. Greek. This examination will be held in Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, beginning Wednesday, May 28, 1879. The regular fee for the examination is $15. For this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...having it all her own way, calls the winds. And they plough up the deep from its lowest bottom, and roll vast billows to the shores, and a steep mountain of water follows the well-built trireme, and Fredricus and Mary Ann are smitten with a terrible sensation. (In English, they are sea-sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which they are sure to get "honourable mention." The author of the article entitled "Honours and Honourable Mention" spoke of the new system as less conducive to studying for marks than the present one; it seems to me that it will double...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOO MUCH HONOUR." | 4/1/1879 | See Source »