Word: devotedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The February number of the Magazine of American History is unusually interesting, being devoted chiefly to articles on George Washington, as this is the month in which his birthday occurs.
Since 1880, Professor Gray's life has been practically uneventful. He last year went abroad, visiting old friends in France, Germany and England, and devoted but little of his time to scientific research. He returned to Cambridge about two months ago and at once took up his scientific work where...
The interest which is taken in the classes in elocution is a good sign of the importance which men are assigning to correctness in speech and nicety in enunciation. Under the tuition of the present instructor, time and attention is devoted to the requirements of every day conversation, and not...
Foot ball, as played by our college elevens, is a very different game from the foot-ball of England. And, in fact, there are two kinds of foot-ball over there. Those who play the Association game think there is nothing like it as a scientific and exciting sport, while...
When I asked the English foot ball expert something about the number of teams he pulled a weekly Birmingham paper out of his pocket and showed me a full page devoted to summaries of games that had been played since the issue of the previous week. There were clubs by...