Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lose valuable time and impair their courses; if on the other hand they pass by such matters without giving the needed explanations, but a small number of the students will derive much benefit from the courses. According to the proposed scheme during the first three years the student will belong to the undergraduate department which will have no special faculty. All the courses will be conducted by instructors, while the professors will lecture in university courses only. The university faculty of arts will then begin with the senior year, and will last for three years, at the end of each...
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia belong to the intercollegiate chess association. Harvard is not an active member...
...select new servants to carry out his ideas. These men must know their business, and, besides, must be interested in the success of the owner. Under these, however, are the laborers who perform routine work. Is it wise to turn these men out even if they do not belong to the owner's political party? The longer they have worked, the better they know their business. Only the efficient Democrats, however few, should be retained. Perpetual rotation is hostile to the best interest of the government...
...only a very few plants in bloom out of doors. The most interesting of these is the "Witch Hazel," which is now covered with slender yellow flowers. Near it there is a group of three trees which attract at this season a good deal of attention, because, although they belong to a much warmer climate they appear perfectly well contented here, the southern Cypress, the southern "Yellow-wood," and the Persimmon. The last of these is in full fruit now, and the frost has rendered the golden fruit quite edible. The greenhouses are filled as full as they can well...
...Mohammedan church is divided into 73 sects, which differ from each other in church government and ritual and also in regard to the doctrines of free will and predestination. There are two main sects, the Sunnites, or Orthodox, and the Shiites, or Sectaries. The latter belong to the party of Ali, the son-in-law and successor of Mohammed, and regard his descendants as the only legitimate Caliphs. Thus the Caliphs after Ali are considered as usurpers...