Word: greate
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These examinations for women are identical with the Harvard entrance examinations for men, are held in New York at the same time with the latter, and both are presided over by the same professor from Harvard. To the private schools of New York they are of great value as forming a standard by which the quality of the teaching may be teased, for, even when candidates fail, the failure gives them and the instructors a clearer idea of the meaning of "accurate" work, and already more than one school has acknowledged its indebtedness to them as having been the means...
Such a scholarship would also be of great service to candidates of small means who are desiring to enter college. A candidate who will complete her examination in the coming June, and whose average for the first half of her examination, passed in June last, was over 70 per cent., having fitted herself while teaching for support at a country district school, is now making an effort to obtain sufficient means to enable her to spend some time in collegiate study, in order that she may increase her value as a teacher. Such candidates should be encouraged, and the committee...
...will offer general knowledge on every subject possible. The work is modelled after Stormonth's Dictionary and Chamber's Encyclopedia, though it will not follow the plan of either work closely. The price per volume will be, cloth, 50 cents; half morocco, 65 cents. The book will fill a great need and be a valuable acquisition to every library. As an inducement to subscribers, the publishers offer the entire set of thirty volumes for $8.50 to any one who sends in his name before March 1, 1888. After this date the price of the set will be $15.00. [New York...
Hickson's shoes have met with great success in every college in the country since their introduction in November last. Will be at JAMES W. BRINE'S, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, until...
Hickson's shoes have met with great success in every college in the country since their introduction in November last. Will be at JAMES W. BRINE'S, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, until...