Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...jersey and the undeveloped one which does not, in a girl of the same height and age, is seldom more than two inches, and often, even, than one, while the well-set chest outgirths the indifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among girls, running is a lost art. Yet it is doubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more to beget grace and ease of movement...
...late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity...
School of Stenography-A limited number of pupils received. A three months course of instruction, (two or three lessons per week) will enable one to make practical use of the art. Address, Stenographer, 19 Worcester Sq., Boston...
...years in the last. In the primary schools are taught the reading and writing of Arabic, arithmetic, and French; in the secondary or preparatory schools Arabic, Turkish, French, and English, pure mathematics, drawing, history, and geography. The special schools are devoted respectively to the subjects of law, medicine, and art, engineering, etc. Besides there are government schools for the blind, those supported by the various Christian communities, both native and European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar...
School of Stenography-A limited number of pupils received. A three months course of instruction, (two or three lessons per week) will enable one to make practical use of the art. Address, Stenographer, 19 Worcester Sq., Boston...