Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pressed brick. It has four stories with a tower in the centre in which a clock is to be placed. The work is under the personal supervision of the founder, who devotes his entire time and attention to the welfare of the college. It is his intention to found this college after the method of the old European universities, although it will be modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control of the funds, choice of instructors, etc. They will assist the founder in carrying...
During the remainder of the year more new books, as fast as issued, will be found in stock...
...number of figures that would result from the multiplication. The girths of the head, chest, (natural and inflated), waist, thighs, uppers and fore-arms, these being the parts tested were summed up. The difference between this amount, which was taken to represent the potential strength and the amount found to represent the actual strength, was termed the condition...
...tabulating the first thousand measurements, the sum representing the potential strength, and the sum representing the actual strength were found to correspond closely in healthy people who had received no preparatory training. This fact, an accidental discovery, was made a relative standard to work by. If the actual exceeded the potential strength, the condition was marked plus the amount of the excess. If the actual fell short of the potential, the condition was marked minus the amount of the deficiency...
...NOERA'S, 436 Harvard street, will be found all kinds of athletic, gymnasium, foot-ball and tennis goods...