Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...having almost no opportunity for practical manual work. The lack of facilities for such work shop training has been noticed as the number of men taking electrical studies has increased. We are glad to see that arrangements have been made by which students can have the necessary advantages in manuel work. The facilities are still very limited, yet we recognize a great advance over the opportunities of the present year, when no more than two men could do any machine work...
...only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that it has been called after him who was the leader of the movement-the age of Poggio. The fall of Constantinople, which brought...
...concur with the votes of the president and fellows in appointing among a number of others Freeman Snow, Ph. D., instructor in forensics for the ensuing academic year; Josiah Royce, Ph. D., instructor in philosophy for the ensuing academic year; Charles Edward Faxon, LL. B., instructor in botany; Manuel Jacob Drennan, A. M., assistant professor of English for five years from September 1, 1883, and in electing William A. Keener assistant professor of law in the Law School...
...special meeting of the Harvard overseers was held yesterday. President Eliot presented the vote of the president and fellows appointing Manuel J. Drennan assistant professor of English for five years. There was also presented a letter from the founder of the William and Samuel Eliot scholarship, asking that graduates and special students as well as members of the four college classes may be eligible to its benefits. Reports of the committees on government and mathematics, physics and chemistry, were presented and referred. The secretary offered a resolution that a professor emeritus is neither an officer of instruction nor government...
...hundred and forty-six are taking Natural History 4. The members of the course will purchase James D. Dana's Manuel of Geology; the third edition (1880) is preferred...