Word: branching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commenting on President Seelye's recently expressed hostility to college papers, the Collegian, a paper published by college graduates in New York, says editorially: "We believe that no branch of the college curriculum is of greater or more permanent benefit to the student than the 'elective' of college journalism. No required literary exercise so tends to develop originality of conception, facility of expression, and finish of style. 'The best school of journalism in the world,' said Prof. Thwing, 'is the editorial board of a college journal.' From the college paper graduate the trained writers, the authors, the editors, who mould...
...rather a battered state. Classics, however, are now abolished entirely, and this cannot fail to have an important influence on the system of education pursued at the public schools, and must eventually exercise a diminishing effect on the number of university candidates. The importance of Classics as a branch of education has long been disputed with considerable ardour and ferocity; but there can be no doubt that a very important vote has now been registered against them...
...ones, and had set an example which has been followed very generally over the whole country. The speaker was very active in forming the Massachusetts League. The league includes every college president in the state, four ex-governors, almost all, if not all, the leading men in every branch of life. The work of the League has been done chiefly through detectives. The platform is that every law should be obeyed by every citizen, and therefore every citizen should promote the enforcement of law. A law, good or bad, is still a law, and should be an active...
...wealthy spiritualist. The purpose of the professorship was the investigation of spiritualism, and similar phenomena. It is a new and interesting field for investigation, and the wide-spread interest which the subject has aroused, has led to the establishment in England of a society for Psychical Research. A branch of this society has recently been formed in America. The society has already made some interesting investigations, and Professor Fullerton is one of the best authorities in America on these matters...
...these headings, for instance law, will first be found general works on the subject, arranged, under sub-heads, by authors alphabetically. Then would come groups, such as dictionaries, periodicals, society reports, etc., containing articles on both special and general subjects. Next come special works, arranged either as a branch-if there is need of further sub-division, in which case the name of the particular branch is placed on the same line as the main heading-or simply as a section, when there is no sub-division required. The following will illustrate this principle, each group under law representing...