Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the year the ladies interested in the Harvard examinations in New York city have established a school to prepare women for them, and it will prove a feeder to the annex classes as well, since the examinations are the same. The school is under the care of a former fellow of Johns Hopkins University and will afford an opportunity that has been wanting heretofore. Women have suffered from the lack of such schools...
...pickers of St. Louis have formed an association, one of the avowed objects of which is "to prove to the world that a rag-picker can be a gentleman...
...cause the membership to decline so seriously as to prevent the formation of new contracts by the directors, and so lead to a collapse. The very fact that no capital would be sunk by the society's failure, may some day lead to lukewarmness in its support which will prove its ruin. At present, however, its success is very noteworthy, and a continuance of it will doubtless lead to the establishment of other societies formed on the same simple and harmless basis in other university towns...
...requests for appointments; upon these we would impress the necessity of attending to the matter immediately. The class, as a whole, made a great move in the right direction by electing their photographer at a very early date. It now remains with the individual members of the class to prove that a marked gain has been made by this new method. Men are urged to make their appointments as soon as possible, and keep them rigidly unless it is absolutely impossible. When an appointment is unavoidably broken a new one should be made immediately. We hope that every member...
...students; it merely seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women, and what more do we want? That co-education is declared a success at several excellent institutions does not prove that it is worth while extending it so long as it is fully acknowledged that Vassar and similar places meet every requirement...