Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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One of the great principles of commercial life is to avoid as far as possible all competition; but the ranks of all the professions, from law to medicine, and to the ministry, are so well filled, in this country, that it takes an exceptionally gifted man to raise himself above...
The universal opinion seems to be that a course in contemporaneous history would be of almost incalculable value to students in general, but especially to those who intend to make journalism their profession. The number of men who intend to devote their lives to journalism is by no means small...
The President's annual report of Johns Hopkins University has appeared, and is devoted to a short summary of the year's progress. The University is beginning to get settled in its present courses and methods, so that less and less change from year to year will be necessary. It...
A student is in no way required to choose a topic in any way connected with his other college work. He is quite at liberty to devote himself to anything in which he feels interested - provided that his proposed plan does not meet the disapproval of the instructor.
With the growth of specialism, the department of History at Harvard has increased in proportions and importance until at present twenty courses are barely adequate to the demand. There is still, however, room for advance in the study of the original resources. Work of this character engages much attention at...