Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is a most important and weighty statement; and it is a very true one. The more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their...
...conjugation of verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk grammar that, "anyone, understanding English, French, German or Latin, can acquire a complete knowledge of this new language in a month." Indeed, proof is offered by a class in one of the French business colleges, which, after eight lessons, was able to correspond easily in this tongue...
...Cambridge city government met last evening. In the board of aldermen Supt. Bancroft of the Cambridge horse railroad appeared, and made a statement that the directors of the company had unanimously voted to reduce the fare to all points from 6 to 5 cents...
Yesterday's Boston Herald contained a flat denial of the accusation that Princeton was guilty of "jockeying" in the last Princeton-Yale foot-ball game, The denial is made by F. S. Spaulding, managing editor of the Princetonian how completely refutes the statement that Harris was "hidden" by Princeten in order to get Moffat to referee the game...
...only 57 per cent of the Harvard undergraduates used the library, but now nearly 90 per cent avail themselves of his privileges. This statement from President Elliot's report, shows two things: one, that 10 years ago there must have been a sad lack of at least one branch of culture; the other, that it is now popular at Harvard to be known as a reading man. - Boston Record...