Word: european
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...students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor...
...have received from William Watson, Ph.D., a prospectus of his establishment for giving advanced instruction in engineering and the graphic arts. The system of instruction is the European, which has already begun to attract some attention in this country: but we have never seen it set forth and illustrated with such precision as is done by Dr. Watson in the explanation of his "Studio and Atelier." This school gives such instruction as has been furnished in the past only by the best technical schools of Europe, and uses "many graphical and abridged methods not yet embodied in text-books...
...connection with a handbook of Boston goes. The accounts of the various hotels and restaurants read almost exactly like advertisements. Thus, in the account of the Parker House appear those familiar lines, "The clarets, etc. are Mr. Parker's direct importation, the result of personal selection from the best European vintages." Ober's receives a handsome notice, and Mr. King informs us that this famous restaurant is patronized by the Aimee Open Company and by the elite of Boston. Whitney's is of course enlarged upon, and the inevitable "Harvard Room" and "mutton-chop weighing a full pound before...
...that was the position of History 7. This course is one of the most desirable in college, and for those who are particularly interested in history is an absolute necessity, for no man who wishes to be well informed in that subject can be without a knowledge of European history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Large numbers of students took the course, not because it was "soft," for there are many easier courses offered us, but with a view to the profit they would get from it. Now what did the Faculty do on seeing this? One would suppose...
STEWART SHILLITO, Treasurer.MR. J. L. STODDARD will deliver a lecture on "Paris" at Lyceum Hall next Monday evening, May 6, at 8 P. M. It is the first of a series of four upon the art, antiquities, and present appearance of some famous European and Oriental cities, the remaining ones being upon "Milan and Venice," "Rome," and "Cairo the Magnificent," on ensuing Mondays. These lectures, which are profusely illustrated by large stereopticon views, are highly spoken of by the press and competent critics. Season tickets $100, and single tickets 30 cents, at Sever's and at A. R. Bayley...