Word: laterizing
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...yesterday's issue; it is doing good work in effecting savings to members, and its usefulness is so generally felt that it would not be permitted in any event to expire. The number of members needed to keep up the society is therefore pretty sure to join sooner or later. But many who mean to join have delayed in doing so through mere negligence or carelessness or forgetfulness. We hope that all former members will promptly renew their membership, in order that the number may be brought immediately to the working point. The men of the lower classes, who have...
...Evidence of Liberal Education," and its object was to advance that educational reform now in progress whereby the circle of "liberal studies" is to be widened so as to include, besides the Latin, Greek and mathematics, which were the staples of the sixteenth century curriculum, those other sciences of later growth and of modern perfection "which now moment the highest consideration from every one save college trustees and faculties." President Eliot opened by pointing out that nowhere had reform moved more sluggishly or against greater obstacles than in the alteration of the accepted courses of instruction in institutions of learning...
...Royal Society, and from the masters of the school. A number of fellowships are connected with the school at various colleges, but principally at Oxford. For a long time after its foundation, classical studies were alone fursued, but mathematics were added in 1837, and modern languages twenty-four years later. The old buildings were occupied until the beginning of this century, when no ones were erected, together with a chapel. The chapel has since been replaced by a larger and finer edifice, and lately the fine Vaughan library and a school hospital have been built. Buron was a graduate...
...lighter than last year, but are making good progress. Appleton will be the permanent stroke. Their stroke this year is slower than last, and all the power seems to be put in at the beginning, causing the boat to jerk forward, which serious defects will be remedied later under Captain Cook's supervision. The Yale men think that this crew, in spite of its rawness, offers as much hope as did our crew of two years ago to us. This is saying a great...
...there is much ground for study in our town and city government, and also a deplorable lack of knowledge on the subject. It is the duty of all of us as citizens to study and also to take action in this subject. The great failure of Mr. Wendell Phillips' later life was owing to his having no knowledge of political science, and hence wasting his powers...