Word: complement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Jamaica Plain to the chair of botany, of Mr. Edward Burgess of Boston to that of entomology, and of Mr. L. S. Ford, a graduate of the School, to the position of demonstrator in zoology, fills out the corps of instructors in the Bussey Institution to the original complement of seven. This department of the University is better fitted than ever before to give systematic instruction in the branches - agriculture, horticulture, and the knowledge of domestic animals - to which it is specially devoted...
...Crocker have consented to take their old seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates had the satisfaction of seeing the New London crew, with only one change in its complement, pull past the float with the same magnificent stroke that has won them their well-merited reputation. We are expressing the feeling of the entire college when we heartily thank the stroke and the bow of the '78 crew for coming to the rescue when the future of our rowing interests seemed...
...article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
This barbarous state of things should continue no longer. Let Harvard, ever foremost in improvement, adopt this last, this final reform, - the complement of the elective system. Then soon will she see her graduates far surpassing in learning and intellect those of the most renowned universities of the Old World...
...higher grade, equivalent to Latin 2, 3, 5, and are intended to meet the wants of those who are somewhat more ambitious or proficient than the majority. Greek 6 has a historical tendency, and Greek 7 is decidedly philosophical and in this respect the complement of Latin...