Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better institutions of learning. The first incumbent of the McLean Professorship of ancient and modern history, was Jared Sparks, A. M., who was at that time engaged upon the pioneer work in the field of American history. Although Cornell was the first institution in America to establish a special chair for this branch of historical instruction, the most important to Americans, Harvard was the first to bring American history into decided prominence by the encouragement of original lectures upon this subject by Professor Sparks...
...slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more employment to the right arm than to the left...
...loyalty of the students. Amherst secret societies are not to be confounded with class societies, for they are different in every respect. At Amherst a man joins a society in his freshman year, and continues his connection with it during the four years. Many attempts have been made to establish class societies; but their term of existence is generally short. At present there is no such society in college, if we except the Phi Beta Kappa, which is in no sense social. The four-year societies are eight in number, and enroll as members more than three-fourths...
...government has the constitutional right to establish a postal telegraph...
Chicago has raised $300,000 for a School of Technology. The State of Georgia has also decided to establish a similar school at Atlanta, costing...