Word: work
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducted the Modern Language Institute in Boston. This department although never announced has always been in the scheme of the university. It will not take up at all the philology or literature of the languages, but will be devoted entirely to equipping men with what is needful for scientific work. Dr. Camille Reid, the head of the department, is a German by birth, and is well fitted for the place he occupies, as he speaks French, German and Italian. The method of instruction used will be largely conversational...
...anthropology has been employed in this country, exclusively to denote that part of theological instruction which deals with the creation, fall and redemption of man. Scientific Anthropology, which this department is to teach, is entirely different from that: it is an empirical science based almost wholly upon careful field work among savages and primitive peoples. It embraces craniology, the minute study of savage languages, myths, religious rites and ceremonies, and the primitive industries, modes of warfare and habits of life...
...bursar's office. The gentleman across the desk smiles blandly and says he knows absolutely nothing about the matter. Under this mystical cloud remains the plain fact that scores of students are living about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated...
...Harvard Bridge, of which so much is expected in the way of rapid transit between Boston and Cambridge, is at length nearing completion. A portion of the fence remains to be set up and the planking is yet to be laid on the Cambridge end of the bridge; this work will probably be finished within three weeks, when the bridge will be practically complete. The house to accommodate the draw tender and cover the draw machinery is not yet built, but its construction will not delay the opening of the bridge; the same can be said of the asphalt pavement...
...ball on Peck's misplay and Trafford kicked. Hall returned the ball which Harvard got well up in Wesleyan's territory. Stickney rushed twenty yards and got across the line. Time 42 minutes. Goal. When the ball was put in play Day and Slayback continued to do good work, but Tilton got the ball on the latter's fumble. Blanchard, Lee and White rushed strongly and Stickney brought the play to Wesleyan's twenty yard line. Time was called immediately after...