Word: specialize
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...Grethen, special student, has left college to take charge of an orchestra in San Francisco...
...abandonment can not but be considered wise. Still we cannot but cherish the hope that this abandonment is but a temporary one. A university which claims to hold the highest place among the educational institutions of the country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown by the growth of our departments of Sanskrit and Semitic languages. A university should maintain a number of chairs, which bring no direct returns, for the sake...
...year or two, this practice which was often very advantageous to the students has been entirely given up, and the students are at present obliged to seek for any information upon the subjects of their themes or forensics which they find. Often the library contains a book which affords special facilities for obtaining a good idea of the subject. If this were placed upon the reserved shelves it would prove useful to a large number of men, but under the present arrangement the chances are that it will be taken out and kept out by some lucky...
...special meeting of the board of overseers held in Boston Thursday, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Arthur Prescott Lothrop, A. B., as proctor; William Baker Hills, M. D., assistant professor of chemistry for five years, from September 1, 1884; to concur in the vote to abolish the professorship of ancient patristic and modern Greek, established by the vote of April 28, 1860. The vote of the president and fellows, electing John Williams White professor of Greek, was laid over under the rules of the board. It was voted that the annual report...
...TUESDAY.Certain Authors of the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries. Special subject: Sir Walter Scott. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...