Word: highly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...occurred in the furnishing department. This is due to the fact that the Society is now able to carry a large stock, whereas when this department was first opened its stock was fair sized in a few lines only. It is also largely due to the well known high character of the goods offered for sale...
...detailed description of the laboratory. The laboratory, Prof. Trowbridge said, is divided into two equal parts, one for elementary work and the other for special research. The large lecture-room, intended for general elementary lectures, is fitted up with the best modern appliances, with running water, with high-pressure hot water, with electric currents, with oxygen-hydrogen lamps, etc. The room above is the elementary; etc. The room above is the elementary; it is sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students. The excellent work done in this laboratory...
President Eliots idea, one with which many will agree, is that a tuition ought to be charged in the high and normal schools, and the money so received directed to securing better teachers and more thorough instruction. If this plan should be carried out it is thought that not only would young men be able to come to college, and go into business earlier, but that the practice of "jumping college" would be put a stop to, which means that a large proportion of our business men would receive a much fuller and more complete education...
...interscholastic base ball association has been formed of the following eight schools, all of which are situated in or around Boston: Roxbury Latin, Hopkinson's, Noble's and Hale's, Nichols and Brown, Boston Latin, English High, Cambridge High and Latin, Chauncy Hall. The officers of the association are: President, J. M. Kendricken, Boston Latin; vice-president, T. E. Sherman, Roxbury Latin; secretary, H. D. Wintrenger, Chauncy Hall; treasurer, Russell B. Beal, Roxbuly Latin...
...Phillips Andover winter tournament took place Saturday. There were numerous sparring and wrestling entries. Coxe, '89, put the shot 32 feet, 6 inches, and also won the high jump, 5 feet, 1 inch. Silver cups were awarded as prizes...