Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfected in 1876. And the fact that Washington never received pecuniary compensation for his services in the army, leaves a debt to be paid to his memory by the American people; and as he had a well-defined plan in regard to the establishment of a university in a central part of the United States, for the benefit of the youth of all parts of the country, and as Washington and Lee University is the only seat of learning in existence which received his personal aid and encouragement, and is being developed so as to realize to the country...
...education. In the continual multiplying of new foundations there must be in one sense a certain loss of time, energy and money. We do not believe that the higher education of the country should be concentrated in one, or oven in very few institutions. Every section should have its central college of liberal arts as a promotive to a broader education of the masses below. But the very best opportunities from simple economic reasons can only be offered in some few central universities of all sciences. It is these universities that are too often neglected for the sake of lesser...
...John Avery, a well known civil engineer, a graduate of Harvard, was killed last week on the New York Central Railroad...
...freshman class of Cornell University has representatives from Russia, Spain, Brazil, Central America, Germany, Australia, and Canada...
...place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture. The main point is that the instruction given in the Realschule lacks a central point; hence the unsteadiness in its system of teaching. It embraces a collection of studies most of which cannot be pursued with the requisite thoroughness within the limits of the school. In a word, it has not been possible to find an equivalent for the classical languages as a centre...