Word: working
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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VISITORS to the Gymnasium, after work has begun, will be obliged to observe the exercises from a part of the southern end of the hall, which is inclosed by a railing...
ACCORDING to Mr. Gladstone's recent Rectorial Address to the students of Glasgow, of 590 students in Arts, or the Humanity Classes, 199 are independent of any avocation that has to be pursued concurrently with their studies; 391 have to work for their living even while they study for their education. Of these last, 240 work both during the winter season and throughout the summer; 135 work in summer only; while 16 join a business to their winter work as students...
...next addition to the building of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which is to be built by means of the Agassiz Memorial Fund, will be almost wholly devoted to laboratories, lecture-rooms, and work-rooms, and will furnish necessary facilities for instruction in biology and geology...
...presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant...
PRESIDENT PORTER of Yale, in his work on American Colleges, discusses at some length the "system of elective studies as now carried out at Harvard," and compares this system and its results to the old method of prescribed studies throughout the four years' course at Yale. It is hardly necessary to say that President Porter is strongly opposed to the elective system, and gives many strong arguments in favor of the old-timed course of four years of prescribed work in Mathematics, Classics, and Philosophy...