Word: taught
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regularly proceeds from a knot of small boys who select with particular care seats near the choir. This is done with the intention of distracting the attention of the choir boys by winking at them and keeping up a perpetual flow of talking and whispering. These boys should be taught to be quiet or be excluded from the chapel...
...said that the late ex-President Mark Hopkins of Williams taught all but 31 of the 1,726 living graduates of that college...
PROF. LOISETTE'S MEMORY DISCOVERY.- Prof. Loisette's new system of memory training, taught by correspondence at 237 Fifth Ave., New York, seems to supply a general want. He has had two classes at Yale of 200 each, 250 at Meriden, 300 at Norwich, 100 Columbia Law Students, 400 at Wellesley College, and 400 at University of Pennsylvania, etc. Such patronage and the endorsement of such men as Mark Twain, Dr. Buckley, Prof. Wm. K. Harper, of Yale, etc., place the claim of Prof. Loisette upon the highest ground...
...Immigration has kept us from provincialism, and taught us many useful lessons...
...most powerful men in it last year. Their loss has not been made good. Again, sickness has interfered with the crew's work since April, and even now Middlebrook is just getting over a boil. The men are rowing exactly the same stroke that Bob Cook taught them last year. Caldwell made that a condition of his stroking the crew again this year, and it was agreed to. But the men have not caught the stroke as well by any means as they did last year, though of late there has been a rather marked improvement. They...