Word: intendment
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...institution for the future, in many respects, has been created in the celebrated Agassiz museum in Cambridge, which probably will not be without influence on the development of museums of natural history in Europe. The genial founder of the 'Museum of comparative zoology,' as he called it, did not intend to have a brilliant exhibition, but a place for serious labor and study. And the great enterprize called into existence in 1860 by Louis Agassiz, has now been nearly completed, according to the ideas of the father, by the energy and the organizing talent of the son. Over three hundred...
Prof. F. A. March, of Lafayette, and C. P. G. Scott, of Columbia, intend to publish a magazine of popular philology, printed in the reformed spelling of the British and American Philological Societies, to be entitled Language...
...following arrangements have been made for the Bicycle Club dinner: The dinner will take place at Young's Hotel, Monday, February 25, at 6.30 P. M. Mr. T. C. Coolidge, '84, will act as toast master; Mr. R. F. Hour, '84, as chorister. All who intend going are requested to sign at Bartlett's as soon as possible. Price $2.50 a plate...
...made, in your issue of February 11, of the words specialist and superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge whatever. There are, of course, minds which are capable of making more progress in various directions than other minds in a single direction, but I think it can hardly be disputed that...
...section is highly appreciated, and the plan seems such a peculiarly happy one that we are led to ask why it cannot be adopted in other courses. Most instructors at the beginning of the year make a general, and sometimes rather vague announcement of the methods they intend to pursue in conducting their courses, but the men soon forget what has been told them, and there is always a feeling of uncertainty about what is going to take place in one's course, which, to say the least, is annoying...