Word: train
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gunning of the Boston nine has been engaged to train the Holy Cross College nine in Worcester...
...ensues; wardrobes are ransacked and set in order; lessons are hastily read, or pushed aside; visions of bright forms and thoughts of conquest flit through the undergraduate mind; upper-classmen are quizzed as to the probabilities of the evening, social, and even gastronomical. At the appointed time, a long train of students file into the president's library, and are warmly received by that gentleman, his wife, various members of the faculty, and a large corps of ladies from the homes of professors and from the families of ancient lineage, of which there are several in Princeton. To the inquiring...
...object of this school is to train students who wish to fit themselves for geological work in the field, and to aid teachers in acquiring methods of instruction in the elements of geology. It will be conducted by the instructors in geology at Harvard College...
...article in Sunday's Herald by Captain Ward on the training of professional base-ball players suggests many points that would apply as well to rowing, foot-ball and any hard out-door exercise. It is the general law of training clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true...
...suspicion of the manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university, while the Divinity School is merely an important factor, but no more. The same is true with the older institutions. and it is only at a comparatively recent date that institutions of learning are founded and endowed in the true...