Word: minor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will of George Draper of Nahant, Harvard University is to get a share of the residue of his property, after a few minor bequests have been paid...
...discretion of the janitor, so that when there is no great rush a man may have a longer pull. In the morning there is no such rule, and members may stay out as long as they please. The comforts of members have been increased this year in many minor points, the boat house being kept in better condition, while the club has bought some scales, and there is ice water to be had at all times. A good many men have taken the opportunity offered to keep private boats, and for these there is ample accommodation...
...delighted with "Beau Brummell" as Richard Mansfield shows him to the Globe Theatre audiences. There is an exquisite artistic delicacy in his impersonation of this most noted of English swells, and throughout the play the dialogue is admirable in its terseness and its polish. The delineation of the minor characters is excellent, and "Beau Brummell," as a play, is a piece of work at once literary and effective...
...government of the people was not at all intricate, consisting of a king, who was more a "father of the people" than an oppressor, a number of minor princes, and a council of the elders. The king interfered very little in the affairs of the people, but rather took the part of a champion of the weak against the strong...
...course of study, each term of twelve weeks will be divided into two periods of six weeks each. Each student will pursue but two studies at a time, a major study and a minor study, and he will devote all of his time for at least six weeks, and it may be longer, to these two studies. Other studies will be taken up in succession, two by two, so that instead of diffusing his mental energies among six or eight simultaneous studies, as is the case under the present system of teaching at colleges and Universities, he will concentrate...