Word: count
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give half of every day to Harvard College, where so many men are ignorant of the fact that he is here among us and taking, as a Harvard man himself, a deep and daily interest all the men as a whole. It cannot be indifference, for the actual count, day after day, proves that the percentage of men, as regards the total enrollment of the college, who are present in chapel, is larger than that of the populace of our large cities. Still, were Dr. Brooks so widely known throughout our country and abroad, to visit us from...
...present time the results in accuracy, if not in facility, of arithmetical work leave very much to be desired. Scarcely has the child been taught to count as high as 10, when he is put at technical applications of arithmetic, to money coins, to divisions of time, space, etc.; and these technical applications are increased in 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...
...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...
...championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race on the Thames. It is a real and earnest business, whether too much so for college sports is not the question here, and the long and tedious work is what will count for the most when the most is needed...
...effort has been made by some members of the faculty to have all recitations count and to abolish term examinations. If it were left to the students to decide, a unanimous verdict in the affirmative would be given. - Cornell...