Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Riedesel Ave., Cambridge.$1,000 premium and one year's apprenticeship. Upon these terms an established daily newspaper, conducted by a university man, is willing to receive into its editorial department five graduates of '95 who can pass a satisfactory examination as to their journalistic qualifications. Address, Brevier, P. O. box 1417 New York...
...Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes of a slaveholder. The book is edited and abridged by Edward Everett Hale, a fact...
...field. Captain Rhodes began the season with a nucleus of old and experienced players; besides himself there were Heffelfinger, Hartwell, the two Morisons, McClung and Harvey; in addition Williams and C. Bliss had had some experience and had shown themselves valuable men. Holcomb had served an apprenticeship of three years on the second eleven, and Wallis, Mills, Adams and Crosby had all done good work in the same training school. Barbour had done good work at Exeter and on the freshman team last year, and finally, N. Bliss, an incoming freshman, had promised well when at Andover...
...average college graduate is 26 years old when he takes his degree at the Law School, and then has his apprenticeship or clerkship of intermediate length before he can practice for himself. Wherever the fault and whatever the remedy, it is evident that the degree of Bachelor of Arts is taken in the U. S. later than in any other country in which the degree is used, and too late for the best interests of the individuals who aspire to it, and for the institutions which confer...