Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University boat. Carter does a great deal of the coaching while the men are at work in the tank. In regard to the stroke oar of the boat nothing can be said at present; Caldwell may or may not stroke again. The recent newspaper account of the affair was a matter of complete surprise to the whole university...
Invitations and preliminary dance cards are out for the junior promenade which takes place on the evening of February 15. The affair promises to be a great success and will be largely attended. The committee for the promenade is the same one that had charge of the sophomore reception given in honor of the senior class last June. The Glee Club will give their first Princeton concert of the year on the same evening, before the promenade. The Dramatic Association will give their next play about the middle of March. They will present another "Old Heads and Young Hearts," during...
Last Tuesday evening, Professor Lovering's numerous friends assembled at the Vendome Hotel in Boston to observe in a fitting manner the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Lovering's connection with Harvard as professor of physics. The affair consisted of a reception and banquet and was highly successful. About two hundred guests were present, amongst them being naturally many Harvard professors. President Eliot presided, and speeches were made by the following gentlemen: Professor Joseph Lovering, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. George E. Ellis, Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, Dr. A. P. Peabody, General Charles Devens, Col. T. W. Higginson, Professor...
...concert in the Central Music Hall, Saturday evening, was in some respects even more successful than its predecessors. The affair had almost the nature of a reception. Everybody was in full dress. All were ready to applaud whenever provocation offered. In spite of the fact that the clubs had been travelling steadily for a week, the pieces were given with greater snap, if with less care, than in New York. Encores were demanded, particularly of the banjo men, until the programme was nearly doubled. The Glee Club was assisted by Honore, '88, president of the club last year, who sang...
...should not be turned over to the States. (a) The U. S. should keep the lands for the settlers; (b) it is an interstate affair, since the streams cross State boundaries...