Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hardly necessary to point out to the officers of the glee club that it would be very unfortunate for the club to have this idea become prevalent in the college. The petition for the western trip is now backed by all the influence which the college can put behind it. But it is necessary to suggest that it would be very easy to have that petition meet an open hostility which could hardly prove anything else than fatal...
...different, while with us the faculty of memorizing is considered as merely an amusement, with them, oral tradition was law book, title-deed of property and method of religious instruction. Memorizing was a fine art and was cultivated to an extent almost inconceivable. The Hebrews did not put their psalms on paper; trained men learned them. For centuries, the Vodas were repeated from one generation to another. Among the many instances of the powers of the cultivated memory is that of the inhabitants of the Polynesian Islands, who living 5,000 miles apart, where no communication was possible, have kept...
...University. The pressing need of a suitable reading room furnished with electric light is too generally felt to admit of more than one opinion regarding the scheme developed two years ago to supply the want. This plan, thanks to the individual energy of two or three men, was put into practical operation with such success as Mr. Williams' report shows. This twenty-two thousand dollars, the total of cash and funds pledged is a high tribute to the energy of the men who gave their time to the work, but the fact remains that it is only about two-thirds...
...engineer who was first put to work on the field reported that the cost of filling each acre - there being from 80 to 100 - by the ordinary method would be $4,000 per acre. For $60,000 the grounds could have been dyked, but that was impracticable. So that the remaining acres will be filled in gradually by refuse and ashes...
After the conclusion of Professor White's address many questions were put by men in the audience to the members of the Athletic Committee, who were all present, and much interesting information was was given...