Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...promise of a successful exhibition. The interest of the entire body of students in the occasion has been satisfactorily shown by the ready sale of seats and of tickets, as well as in other ways more direct. The training of the contestants has generally been thorough and faithful. '84 furnishes the largest number of entries, followed closely by '83. A better showing should certainly have been made by the freshmen in point of numbers. More entries from the seniors will of course be expected for the succeeding meetings. But for this occasion '84 and '83 can undoubtedly call forth abundant...
...traditions which cluster around the life of a great university, if collected, would furnish material for a voluminous and inspiring volume. It is a work, we believe, which has not yet been undertaken by any one. The following story is told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world...
...contract which Dion Boucicault has signed with Mr. Field to act under the latter's management next season, he agrees to furnish two new plays...
...HERALD, always on the alert to furnish its readers with the latest news, is pleased to announce the discovery by a reporter of a copy of the Roman Daily Squint-Eye. We should like to speak of the Squint-Eye as an esteemed contemporary, but, with due respect for the editors, must decline to do so, for the paper was printed about A. D. 125. We present below some extracts...
...value of a college education, and particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will be perhaps impossible ever to entirely free the public mind of a vague prejudice that a college education for a business man is most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return...