Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...maintain a school of its own, a new legislation substituted two hundred families for the former one hundred. At this time over 200 towns in the state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have...
...Highlands confined the visitors to five hits. Adams at third let one grounder pass him, but his three-bagger in the fifth inning was one of the features of the game. Whittemore's fielding was perfect, but his batting was ineffective. For Holy Cross, W. J. Fox, on third, put up the best game, both on the field and at the bat. Pappalan proved rather an effective pitcher, as four scattered hits were all that Harvard could make...
...Amherst faculty has decided to put into practice during the coming year the new system of chapel and church monitorships, which was outlined last year when objection was made by the '95 honor men to serving as monitors. The appointments will not be made on the basis of high scholarship, and hereafter the four monitors will not necessarily be the four best scholars in the senior class. Applications will be received by the faculty and the appointments will be made on the basis of pecuniary assistance to needy and worthy students...
...rather an ambitious effort to put this story into rhyme or even into print, for there is nothing extraordinary in it either in point of conception or treatment. Indeed in regard to the latter, one is amused to find now and then the rhyme lapsing into prose. It is hardly possible to predict that the rhyme will command any special interest from students to whom it must be supposed it is meant to appeal...
...ready, gentlemen, to answer any questions you may choose to put...