Word: manually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meetings do not occur very frequently and students hate to bother about mere parliamentary tactics, as long as the business in hand is quickly accomplished. But for this very reason, to avoid parliamentary haggling and to expedite matters, the chairman should know the ABC of Cushing's or Roberts' manual. It cannot be urged that the offices are unexpectedly thrust upon men, for the principles of promotion have taken a strong hold of our college politics and they generally know when to expect the office of president. In after life, if chosen to preside at public meetings, they...
...particularly impressed by the fact that there is not a school or college in the country in which may not be found the sons and daughters of the working classes. Frequently he found young working men spending a year in college in scientific studies, who intended to resume their manual employment after leaving it. Among the New England institutions which describes, the Boston Institute of Technology is prominent. He says: "This institution worthily enjoys a high reputation in America. Its graduates enter into the scientific professions, and the engineering, mining and manufacturing industries without difficulty or delay. I have experienced...
...absence of manual work in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale is criticised as it gives, says the report, a theoretical tone in the instruction. Of the department of Practical Science at Brown University, he observes that "hitherto it has been chiefly distinguished for its thorough training in chemical science, as applied to the industrial arts, the effects of which have been largely felt and appreciated in the industries of the district, namely, bleaching, calico printing and papermaking...
...must all do. Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education" to be a cultivated man, it is true that nothing will give culture or, indeed, education so quickly as general outside reading. Whether it be supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much we read...
...Manual of the Harvard Club of New York for 1884 has just been issued. The list of names shows a membership of 332. Among the members from recent classes are G. Andrews, '83, Perry Belmont, '72, Paul Dana, '74, L. L. Delafield, '83, Prescott Evarts, '81, L. Godkin, '81, U. S. Grant, Jr., '74, H. G. Leavitt, '83, R. S. Minturn, '84, J. A. Noyes, '83, W. H. Page, '83, E. N. Perrin, '82, Theodore Roosevett, '80, Barrett Wendell, '77 and E. J. Wendell...