Word: manually
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...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...
NATURAL HISTORY 3. Members of the elective will please bring their Gray's Manual of Botany to the examination...
...Dana's Manual of Geology is on sale...
Besides the regular scientific college course, the corporation has established two schools for manual training, the School of Mechanic Arts, with 66 men, and the Lowell School of Design, with 61 men and women. These bring up the total number of persons receiving instructions under the care of the corporation 709; but the two manual schools cannot properly be considered collegiate in nature. The Institute, situated as it is in the midst of the city, where land is very valuable, has no dormitories. The buildings belonging to it are four in number, the original Rogers Building, the New Building...
...York paper gives the following complimentary notice of the book recently published by Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst: "The Manual of Gymnastic Exercises as practised by the classes of Amherst college, by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, now published in a pamphlet of about 50 pages, will furnish for colleges and other institutions what is generally acknowledged to be the model system. Amherst has been for many years distinguished by the perfection of gymnastic education...