Word: employs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secure it in its permanent usefulness the school must now be intrusted to the care of a larger public. It is proposed to raise a general fund of a hundred thousand dollars for the development and endowment of the school and in particular to employ a director of the highest fitness and ability. Our readers need no introduction to the archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure...
...town at about half-past one o'clock and returns before six. If for example a man wishes to send a message in town in the afternoon and to receive a reply in three or four hours, it is very convenient and a great economy in time to employ the messenger. Moreover, it is a great satisfaction to know that a commission will be executed promptly; for the Co-operative guarantees that there be no unnecessary delay. But to enumerate the advantages of the system is simply to state what all can see. We simply wish to emphasize the fact...
...worship, situated in the heart of a great and thriving community, will be closed for lack of worshippers. Each student is now expected to exercise, while a resident of the university, that discretion in attending divine worship which as a member of a Christian home he is wont to employ. If it can be demonstrated by an actual diminution in the number of those present at Chapel that the petition which met with such support from the students was dictated by other than a spirit of adherence to principle, it can be urged justly that the students of the university...
...brisk run of a mile or two, being the daily exercise. As spring came on, and the men began to row on the water, the need of a good coach became more and more apparent. A meeting of boating men was accordingly held, and it was decided to employ Chainey, an English Coach, who was said to possess wonderful qualities as an oarsman and trainer. Chainey accordingly came, but it was soon found that he was not what he had been cracked up to be, and that the men were not improving under his care. He was therefore discharged...
...gives away a ticket aids in destroying the character of Class Day. Last year a goody was overheard boasting that she had twenty yard tickets. She had gone to each man in her entry and asked for "just one for herself." Tradesmen's clerks about Harvard Square employ the same tactics. No word of reproof is needed in regard to such carelessness...