Word: furnishing
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...Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with especial attention to surveying and other practical applications; and a careful and thorough study of Arabic, the language of the interior. History and the modern languages are also studied. The aim of the institution is to furnish a practical, useful education to the young men of the country. Dr. Blyden appreciates the merits of the elective system, but feels that the country is too young, and the cause of education too limited, to allow its practical application in Liberia. Dr. Peabody is president of the American board...
...clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...
...Sophocles "Antigone" based on the edition of Wolff. The "Antigone" is to be edited by Prof. D'Ooge, of Ann Arbor. The object of this series which is being issued under the joint editorship of Prof. J. W. White of Harvard and Prof. Packard of Yale, is to furnish a number of editions of Greek authors with sound and practical notes, based on the best recent German editions. The notes are in the main to be translated from the German but will contain numerous additions, substitutions and omissions by the American editors always indicated in the printing. The books...
...Varsity and second nines have been requested by Capt. Crocker to remain in Cambridge during the April recess. Jarvis Field will in all probability be in good condition, and games have been arranged with the Beacons, Jamaicas and a picked nine from the vicinity. These games will furnish excellent practice for the 'Varsity, while the freshmen by playing with the second nine, will also obtain good practice. The following-named men will probably make up the 'Varsity in the April games: Winslow, '85, Smyth, '83, White, '84, pitchers; Crocker, '85, catcher; Smith, '86, 1b.; Coolidge, L. S., 2b.; Beaman...
...this instruction, special schools will spring up and will draw largely from the classes who would naturally support the colleges. In view of these facts, the strange apathy prevailing at Harvard on this subject seems to be ill-advised. Harvard and other universities will soon be called upon to furnish instruction in departments that have hitherto been weak. It behooves them to be ready to supply the demand when the time comes...