Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and close at 5.30. The public are invited to these services. The front pews are reserved for members of the University and friends accompanying them...
...full share. The city, as such, can do little legally, to aid any enterprise of this kind, however meritorious, but I understand the park's commission to be of the opinion that, if there is a likelihood of the establishment of a richly endowed college for women in close proximity to Clark University, Worcester should at least manifest its appreciative sense of such munificence by the ample provision of open grounds for exercise and recreation...
...last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature of plants in summer, Historia civil is and Historia natural is were close companions in all early academic courses, and they have remained associates in some American colleges down to the present day. (9) The absence of Latin from the entire plan of study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students were required to speak Latin in the class-rooms...
Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p. m. and close at 5.30. The public are invited to these services. The front pews are reserved for members of the University and friends accompanying them...
...door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same earnestness about the work and the same dogged determination to pass the examinations which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort. During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes the pet of the class...