Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Columbia has decided to hold a summer session from July 5 to August 23. Twenty-seven courses will be offered with thirty lectures to each course, and the work will count toward degrees and towards the Teacher's College diplomas. An important feature of the session will be the School of Practice and Observation, where teachers will have opportunities to observe and discuss practical aspects of teaching in connection with their study of the historical and theoretical methods...
...bring on the war, since the Transvaal issued an ultimatum which no nation could stand, and since the condition of two-thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England had not interfered...
There has never been, up to this time, any definite system for judging the intercollegiate debates and consequently the judges have often based their decisions on widely varying standards. With a view toward eliminating this unsatisfactory element, the Intercollegiate Debating Association, composed of the presidents of the debating clubs of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, met in New Haven on October 20 and adopted the following instructions for judges...
...When the Day's Work is Done." The latter is the more effective of these two pictures of peasant life on account of the simplicity of the subject and the valuations of the lights and shadows. The "Storm Clearing Off" is a good example of what can be done toward bringing out the effect of a mingling of clouds, rain and bog. In this picture the author has brought in a group of sheep which brings out the contrast of Nature with Life. Other pictures of mention are "Primrose Time," "A Nor' Easter," and "A Chat with the Miller...
...meeting will be held at the Columbia Gymnasium on December 6 composed of representatives from Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and New York University, to take steps toward forming an intercollegiate gymnastic association. In order to choose the Harvard representatives for the intercollegiate competition, which will be held at New York in March, a preliminary competition will be held, at which the two best men in each event will be selected. In addition an exhibition will be given in the Gymnasium during the winter, and a dual meet with Yale or Columbia may be arranged...