Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Child is not meeting his courses this week on account of illness...
...yesterday's paper appeared an account of the candidates at Yale for the Mott Haven team. Below is given a short account of the most prominent candidates in the various colleges of the association, Yale excepted...
Nichols will not be able to play ball until the weather is warm, as he has been forbidden by his physician on account of rheumatism...
...hour and a half last evening. He declared his inability to tell what Dramatic Art was, but he would endeavor to show how the dramatist was obliged to obey its laws in the construction of a play. To illustrate this he gave the "Autobiography of a Play." an account of the original plot of the "Banker's Daughter," and a description of the later alterations, and showed how these alterations were brought about by the irresistible workings of the Art of Dramatic Construction...
...value of the practical study of nature, of what is commonly called the "field work," and the advantage of the intimate association with an instructor, are by no means small. And when the real pleasure and profit that are derived from the vigorous walks across country are taken into account, courses in Natural History seem to possess an attraction that does not belong to the courses in other departments. It is enough for us to say that we believe that an afternoon spent in the experiences of a N. H. excursion, is profitably and pleasantly spent...