Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss Lizzie Nolan looked lovely in a hand painted pink silk corsage, laced tight with pink silk cord. The skirts were painted in the same manner and looked really charming."- Boston Globe...
...annual reports of the president and treasurer of Harvard College have reached this office, and a careful perusal of them reveals much interesting information. The first part of President Eliot's report describes the manner of entering college by the new method and the care taken by the college to introduce into the preparatory schools a study useful for training in observation and inductive reasoning. Requirements in elementary and advanced physics and advanced chemistry are now being tried with fair success...
...though at bottom it is likely to follow rather than lead their tastes. The tone of the press can be improved if newspaper men can be brought to bear in mind that they may exert a great influence on the tastes and minds of their readers, and that the manner in which they conduct their papers is an important factor for the welfare of the country...
...chief topic of conversation at Wellesley during the past week has been the treatment of the Pierian So-duality of Harvard on last Monday evening, when they gave a concert here. They were no doubt treated in a very inhospitable manner, and much regret was expressed among those who attended their excellent concert. But matters reached a crisis when a scathing article on their cold reception at Wellesley appeared in the Harvard CRIMSON. It was no doubt just, but slightly inconsiderate. The Sodality do not seem to remember that they came, not on the invitation of the college...
...built by means of a massive staging supported on large piles. This staging contains over one million feet of lumber and is within thirty feet as high as Trinity Church steeple, New York. Mr. Clarke then illustrated his remarks by a series of stereopticon views, which showed the manner in which the spans were constructed. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Clarke was greeted with loud applause...