Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, Bowdoin, Cornell, Amherst, Johns Hopkins and Williams are given; also a composite of the Harvard faculty. Portraits of the senior classes in the different colleges for women are also given, so we have before us the typical college senior of both sexes. "Composite photographs of college classes should furnish more important evidence as to the value of this method of typical representation than any which could be derived from composites of less closely related groups. Will all the senior classes of the same college yield the same composite face? By comparing the photograps...
...influences of parentage, of home training, of the "atmosphere" of the college in which three or four years have been spent-in a word of heredity and environment-are here all summed up and averaged."- Then follow the photographs of a large number of senior classes, all of which furnish interesting study, but we would especially be interested in the composite of Harvard, '87 and also in that of the Harvard faculty. A co composite of 449 from all the leading colleges completes the list, and is interesting as showing the typical college senior...
...intended to furnish similar courses to those given by Harvard and Yale and a high standard of excellence for entrance is to be maintained. The tuition fee is to be of a like amount to those of neighboring institutions. The building of the professional schools which are to be added, is to be deterred until a year or so before the first class graduates. There are to be no dormitories, at least for the first two years. Mr. Clark believes that for the present none are needed, as he expects to draw his pupils mainly form the young...
...meet this difficulty that Dr. Sargent has prepared the anthropometric chart. It is intended to furnish the youth with an incentive to systematic and judicious physical training, by showing them at a glance their relation in size, strength, symmetry and development to the normal standard as deduced from the measurements of ten thousand individuals, ranging from seventeen to thirty years...
...attempt is being made by the directors of the Williams College Athletic Association to raise money for constructing a quarter-mile track. The alumni offer to raise one-half the sum if the students furnish the other half...