Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Addison and Steele (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
...number and in difficulty through the successive years of the grammar school, until for a large amount of so-called arithmetic the pupil gets comparatively little practice in the art of numbers. I am far from saying that the pupils of our public schools should not acquire a certain amount of useful information. The most familiar "tables" of lengths, weights, measures and coins may properly be given them, and they may advantageously be practiced in simple operations thereunder. But this whole matter of the technical applications of arithmetic should be treated in a highly conservative spirit. Of late years there...
...year. Mimickry is not uncommon among butterflies. There is a species which is noxious in taste to birds; their form is mimicked in color by a second form, and this one is again mimicked by a third species. Other forms of mimicry are in the resemblance of certain caterpillars to the excrement of birds; the rolling of leaves by caterpillars so as to resemble buds; the coloration of undersides of the wing to look like bark, stones...
...Metropolitan Opera House before a large audience. An original extravaganza in three acts, entitled "The Talisman; or, the Maid, the Monk and the Minstrel," was produced. The burlesque told the story of a marquis of the old regime, who sought to marry his daughter Marguerite to a certain Count Fleurdelis. The lady, however, loves a poor minstrel called Florimel. The minstrel, who is taken under the care of the Goddess of Truth, succeeds, with the aid of the Abbe Kakatoes, in setting at naught the designs of the marquis and the count, and eventually winning his lady love. The cast...
Again, in some courses, the laboratory work must come on certain days, which is hard on those who, knowing nothing about it beforehand, have arranged most of their work for those days. This mal-arrangement is generally remedied by endless changes and petitions to the faculty, which would be saved by a little knowledge beforehand...