Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The February number of Harper's Magazine contains a very interesting article on the great Lick Observatory of California, which, when completed, will contain the largest telescope in the world. The gentleman who contributed the money for this great undertaking, and for whom the observatory is named, was a Mr...
The Herald of Saturday devoted three columns to a detailed account of Dr. Taussig's lecture on the tariff, delivered before the Mass. Tariff Reform Association last Friday.
President White of Cornell. says "The most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from...
The splendid new club house of the New York Athletic Club is probably the finest building in the country belonging to an athletic organization. Beside the usual rooms of a club house it contains a gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole...
Besides the regular scientific college course, the corporation has established two schools for manual training, the School of Mechanic Arts, with 66 men, and the Lowell School of Design, with 61 men and women. These bring up the total number of persons receiving instructions under the care of the corporation...