Word: branch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...presence even would have made the races what they should have been. It is unfortunate that the visit of the Foot-Ball Team took place at the time appointed for the Club-races, for the general principle must be recognized that to be successful in athletics in all the branches we give our attention to, one branch should not interfere with any other...
...success attending a few days' and nights' steady application for anticipation of a study or for an annual warrants the presumption that considerable proficiency would result from six weeks' steady study of some branch of natural history. We are not too bold, perhaps, in saying that some knowledge of botany and chemistry rarely or never comes amiss...
...raised decidedly, if more men cared for academical distinction. The reason that they do not is to be found in the requirements which are imposed on those who wish to be considered candidates for honors. They are obliged to take so many hours of electives in one particular branch that they must choose between giving up the study of many other things and renouncing their ambition. The only remedy for this, that we see, is to accept proficiency in final examinations as an equivalent for so many hours in the tabular view. We cannot see why such a substitution would...
...FROM thy branch sustaining torn...
...house. Although written in strict conformity with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner's all-pervading influence were noticeable in the first movement (allegro con brio), and in the last (allegro vivace). We should certainly take pride in the success of our Professor in a branch of art so rarely attempted by Anglo-Saxon genius...