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and although it was a school for men only, it afforded Henrietta an opportunity to attend its public lectures.
Greville proposed Quiney as the fittest man `` for the following of the cause and to attend him in the matter '', and at his suggestion the corporation allowed Quiney two shillings a day.
We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.
but sometimes arrangements also are made for high school students to attend, and evening extension courses also may be conducted.
The vocational motive is the dominant one for boys, while Jewish girls attend college for social reasons and to become culturally developed.
One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost.
It would authorize the Texas Education Agency to establish county-wide day schools for the deaf in counties of 300,000 or more population, require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of age to attend the day schools, permitting older ones to attend the residential Texas School for the Deaf here.
The defendant, William L. Stickney 3, 23, of 3211 Park pl., Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic school each Tuesday night for one month.
annual members may attend for $16.
Participating members may attend five of the concerts for $9 ( not all ten concerts as was erroneously announced earlier in The Chronicle ).
Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.
For the reception of the sacraments, and for other religious offices, the abbot and his monks were commanded to attend the nearest church.
Participants, both men and women, were charged three dollars to attend or five dollars for all seven lectures.
It was an additional misfortune for Alexei that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.
The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.
Workshops do exist, but usually do not last long enough to fulfill educational requirements for most students, who must then attend additional private lessons if they want to gain proficiency.
In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.
Christine arrives to help Nora repair a dress for a costume party she and Torvald plan to attend the next day.
Josiah wanted Ben to attend school with the clergy, but only had enough money to send him to school for two years.
The Duke indulged himself in pleasure and did not attend to official duties for three days.

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And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.
They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.
A study on adults ages 55 + found that during the four-year study period, people who volunteered for two or more organizations had a 63 % lower likelihood of dying.
He resigned his commission in 1834 to return to Kentucky to care for his dying wife, who succumbed two years later to tuberculosis.
However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.
Agnes McDonnell suffered terrible injuries from the attack but survived and lived for another 23 years, dying in 1923.
As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.
Other versions depict a different death for Ajax, showing him dying when on his voyage home.
The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti, Galilaee, Latin for " You have conquered, O Galilean ", the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian.
She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.
He says, " It is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war ," when the group hears several wounded horses writhe and scream for a long time before dying during a bombardment.
The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".
Some Protestant US military chaplains carry the Roman Rite version of the Anointing of the Sick with them for use if called upon to assist wounded or dying soldiers who are Catholics.
The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.
Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.
By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.
In order to save himself from dying of exposure, he killed his horse, disembowelled it and crept inside the warm carcass for shelter.
As a grim reminder of those times, there is even a prayer in the Jewish liturgy for " when the knife is at the throat ", for those dying " to sanctify God's Name ".
YPLL measurements do not account for how disabled a person is before dying, so the measurement treats a person who dies suddenly and a person who died at the same age after decades of illness as equivalent.
Whatever the nature of their relationship, Domitian seems to have displayed little sympathy when his brother lay dying, instead making for the Praetorian camp where he was proclaimed emperor.
In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.
* Metonymy (" lose a person " for dying, " drinking " for consuming alcohol, " men's room " for men's restroom )

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