Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first issue of the News under the new board appeared Monday, and that of the Courant will follow Saturday. The News intends to issue every Wednesday an illustrated supplement, and the prospects are that the experiment will be a success. The present board of editors are energetic and enterprising, and the paper enters upon an auspicous...
...fellowships yield from $750 to $1,000 a year. Most of them are at Oxford awarded for proficiency in the same studies as are required at the examinations in the various schools of the university. There is hence difficulty in England in causing students to follow any lecture course or branches of liberal culture which do not count towards their examinations in the schools, or towards a fellowship. Among the practical university problems of the day are: (1) the reduction of expenses for students. The necessary cost at an English university is from $600 to $1,000 a year...
...study with some particular object or profession in view, but to the average student, who has been to college merely for the sake of "getting an education," the question is a hard one to answer. Because we have taken a large number of courses in different subjects, does not follow that our time has been wasted, nor that the student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation has by a liberal education formed, as it were, an index in his mind, to which...
...buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained by the last individual owner during the war, the fear of losing the medal by theft, fire, or accident, and the sense of relief expected to follow the knowledge that the medal was held in a secure place, induced the Widow Washington to part with...
...heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...