Word: branching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...news that Princeton is about to erect a new Art School ought to awaken in the university some similar plan of advancing this important branch of study. Harvard has very little to boast of in the way of art collections if we except the plaster casts placed without much show o system in the various recitation rooms, the art publications in the library, and the very meagre collection of models and drawings owned by the Art Department. The treasures treasured in the rooms of the Harvard Art Club cannot with justice be counted among Harvard's collections...
...will derive from it to go to Mr. Lathrop and enter their names for the squad; of course we do not advise any feeble-bodied or ridiculously unfit persons to occupy places that would better be filled by others; but men who fancy they possess any ability for any branch of track athletics ought not to be timid about presenting themselves where they will meet a cordial reception...
...plan of popular instructors in Archaeology, which the Faculty has adopted in the lectures of Professor Lanciani, is to be continued during January by Professor Frothingham, upon the archaeology of Assyria. The lectures of a man so well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports...
...lecture was delivered last evening in Sanders Theatre by Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, on "The Present Aspects of the Indian Question." The speaker was introduced by Mr. Samuel Longfellow, the President of the Cambridge Branch of the Indian Rights Association...
...announcement of Professor Lanciani's lectures on Roman Archaeology, the first of which occurs this evening. As is well known; he is the most eminent living authority on this subject and his words will deserve the fullest attention and regard of all those who are interested in this delightful branch of study. Though Professor Lanciani is an Italian, he speaks English faultlessly so that his lectures will be so much the more enjoyable. The students ought to be grateful to the college authorities for affording them the opportunity of gaining instruction at the hands of so eminent a teacher...