Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...free tickets on cars of the West End Railroad Co. has been prohibited. This rule went into effect...
...rebellious Russian universities have all been closed by the government and will not be opened again until the end of February...
...obstinacy the faculty has shown in refusing to extend the midwinter vacation. It seems to me that, after seeing year after year that men who live at a distance from Cambridge leave two or three days before the recess begins and return two or three after it ends, the faculty would see the advisability of extending the vacation. Whether they do or not, men will continue to cut several days at each end of such a short Christmas vacation as is given us this year; and anyone who views the subject in a fairminded way cannot blame them for doing...
Photographs of Alaskan scenery were next exhibited in great abundance, including some of Sika and of the various mining camps. The coast is a range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches...
...purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum opened the way to specialization by offering elective courses in which the student might work out his natural bent. In point of age the average American student in a first-class college is further advanced at the end of his sophomore year than the average German student when he enters the University from the gymnasium. The actual facts in the American college situations were clearly seen at Columbia College and in the University of Michigan, and it was determined to mediate between the gymnastic period and the graduate period...