Word: branching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obtainable, the existence of a chief responsible in a lump for all expenditure would remove all feeling of individual responsibility from the treasurers of the different organizations, and extravagance would be the rule. Besides, while now many men support different teams liberally because they are fond of that particular branch of athletics, under the combination these men would grow indifferent, not desiring to support things in which they had no interest...
...athletic team which will represent Yale at Mott Haven next spring will be the strongest she has ever sent down, as there is more work being done in this branch of athletics than ever before. A desperate effort will be made to bring home the cup. The struggle between Brooks, Yale's champion runner, and Wendell Baker of Harvard, will be the grandest thing ever seen in an inter-collegiate contest of this kind. They will probably meet in the 220 and 440 yards races, in the half-mile and perhaps in the mile. Baker holds the records, but Brooks...
...electives at Harvard embraced all courses given at Yale and other prominent colleges, but such is not the case. While the student of political science at Harvard may have a larger number of courses in History and Political Economy from which he can make his selection, there is one branch of the subject which is ignored here, but which at Yale, at Columbia, at University of Pennsylvania, and at University of Michigan receives considerable attention. This subject is termed, "Municipal Law" at Yale, and "Mercantile Law" at University of Pennsylvania...
...events. The labor in this way would be greatly divided. Each instructor would lecture once a week, with the privilege of omitting a lecture should there not be sufficient material for a fruitful discussion. Instructors in other departments of the college, whenever anything of especial interest happened in the branch in which they taught, might take an hour to explain the discovery or invention, whatever it might be. Thus the interest of the students would greatly be aroused in every day happenings, and we would have enthusiasm where now we have indifference...
Moreover, the plan of the prescribed themes and forensics has been so arranged that the students as a whole do more and better work in this branch. Then, too, electives have been added, not only in literature, but in composition. All these reforms have acted directly upon our college papers by bettering them...