Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just as ecclesiastical and legal history have come to be separated from history proper, so it is only a question of time when economic history will be assigned a sphere for itself...
Outside of his professional career, Professor Horsford engaged in many works of general utility. One of his first works on returning from Germany was to investigate and select the proper material for the service pipes of the Boston Water Works. He was a member of the committee for the defence of Boston Harbor in the Civil War. He also devised a marching ration for the army which was very widely adopted. In 1873 he was one of the United States' commissioners to the World's Fair in Vienna, and in 1876 he was commissioner at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia...
...whole thing resolves itself into the question as to whether Yale is a college or a university. If it is a college it may be a proper thing to compel students to attend religious exercises; but a university demands a more liberal spirit. Yale's present system. I am free to say, is not in keeping with the university standard. The Yale man's average age is growing older year by year. I have been instructing here twenty years, and the average age of the men has grown two years in that time. A more ideal university standard than that...
...vote has been passed by the trustees of Dartmouth College to bring the Thayer and Chandler Schools into closer association with the college proper...
...where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings lecture...