Word: establish
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...great increase in the demand for competent instructors in physical culture, and the success which attended the course in physical training at the Summer School, led the University authorities to establish last year a four years course intended to equip men thoroughly for such work. Dr. Sargent says that there has been a fair amount of interest shown, but too few of the men who started in last year possessed the proper physical qualifications. The old fault with men seeking such positions has been that they have been simply good athletes, with no knowledge of anatomy or of the theories...
...prize has been added to the list of those already offered by the University which is intended to encourage men to prepare themselves for journalism. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald offered the University the sum of $1000 to establish a prize for "the best essay in English prose upon some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest." The gift was gratefully accepted on the terms named in Mr. Bennett's letter which were briefly these: That the sum be kept invested and the interest there of be given annually...
...European system is used and although it is the desire of the management to establish an American plan to work in connection with that already formed, still it is doubtful if they will be able to accomplish this task...
...intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such words. If he was not acquainted with the facts of the case, he is not justified in trying to prejudice the public by a method so small and unmanly. If he tried to be bright and to establish a reputation as a funny man, he had best give up at once and try a hand at something which requires less general intelligence and appreciation of humor...
Following the example of Oxford University, the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching has decided to establish a University Extension summer meeting where all the students now enrolled in that movement throughout the country, estimated at 50,000, can continue their studies. The place selected for the meeting is Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania having offered to place all its building and athletic grounds and boating privileges at the disposal of those who attend the meeting, which will be in effect a great summer university. The time is fixed from July 5th to August 3d. Professors and instructors...