Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last meeting of the K. N. the following officers were elected: J. McG. Foster, President; F. R. Burton, Vice-President; C. F. Mason, Secretary; E. Cheney, Treasurer...
OFFICERS of the H. U. R. C.: President, N. H. Davis, L. S.; Secretary, Treasurer, and Captain, Thomas Russell, '79; Field Committee, C. Brigham, '80, C. C. Foster, '80, and F. E. Simpson...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...
...second ten of the K. N. are as follows: A. M. Allen, F. R. Burton, W. G. Chase, J. McG. Foster, A. F. Lane, J. P. Lyons, C. F. Mason, C. H. Mahon, W. T. McKone, O. A. Olmsted...
...questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...