Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DYER.SENIOR FORENSICS.The first Forensic will be due November 2. Subjects: 1. Is Labor in the United States unjustly oppressed by Capital? 2. Are the creations of the fine arts subject to rule? 3. Is there any other aim in life than that of the pursuit of happiness...
...departments, can be taken up, and under professors who have made life-long studies of their respective and special branches, pursued to the very limits of human knowledge. There are courses so admirably arranged and instructed that one, after spending the ordinary college course of four years in the pursuit of a special line of knowledge, finally appreciates his own incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope of his subject, and is forced to admit to himself that he is but like "a little child idly counting the sands on the shore of a vast, unexplored...
President Barnard complimented the members of the graduating class of Columbia College, at the commencement exercises yesterday, for their unusual attainments in scholarship. It is gratifying to note that the assiduous pursuit of knowledge on the Harlem has not interfered with a proper amount of devotion to letters. The Columbia crew will go to New London today. If they will give as good an account of themselves at the oar as the members of the senior class have given at their books the glories of 1876 may be again revived, and Columbia be again the college champion. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...purpose to send forth into the world mere money-making machines. The New York business man needs, after the bustling life down town, the rest and refreshment of some literary pursuit; hence, our lecture courses on the different literatures are intended to foster a literary taste, and implant a desire to know something more about those new worlds that offer so fair a literary fruitage...
Nine persons have been massacred by Indians in New Mexico. Cavalry are in pursuit...