Word: branch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung to so high a pitch of excitement that if a reaction took place after graduation, the consequences must have been dreadful indeed. Likewise did she have her share of other wooing than that of the Muses, and did not take...
...enough men take an elective to overcrowd it, (that is to say, either to diminish the benefit of the course, or to overwork the instructor), the proper remedy is, either the addition of more electives in that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...
Take, for instance, what is regarded as the mechanical part of newspaper work, - the preparation of telegraphic despatches. In this branch punctuation, capitalizing, paragraphing, and the art of clear expression are the first requisites; and when one has mastered these there is so little trouble with the technicalities of heading, etc., that one who has profited by his courses in themes can with a week's practice become a fair telegraphic editor...
...concerning the construction of aesthetic chimney-pots and fences. But I was mistaken. He is supposed to have a desire for authoritative criticism of public men, derived from the daily papers, and illustrated by allusions to the politics of ancient Rome. Now what I object to is that this branch of the subject was not mentioned in the list of electives, and this was, I presume, the cause of my mistake...
...will lay this at the door of our republican institutions, and say that it is because in this country ignorant men can be elected to office. But the blame is not to be shifted so easily; the fault lies rather in the schools, which have neglected a most important branch of study. Many of those who show such utter incapacity to deal with questions of finance are, in other respects, clear-headed and intelligent. It is not that they are ignorant men, but that, however well informed in other respects, they are ignorant of the very knowledge which is most...