Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...presumably qualified to make them? But there is even less to be said against the second charge, inasmuch, as far as can be seen, Harvard's policy toward oratory is to bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost arts," with all possible speed. Unless the Boylston prizes, which we owe to a private individual and not to the College itself, be considered an exception, oratory has here no recognized existence whatever. Thus Mr. Adams is literally correct when he says on this point: "At present nothing of the kind is attempted...
...courses of instruction in science were given in the College this vacation, - one at the Botanic Gardens, the other at Boylston Hall. Both were courses of laboratory instruction, intended to prepare persons to teach science experimentally in schools...
...Boylston Prizes, June 19, 1873.ARTHUR HOWARD PICKERING, Frederick Ozni Vaille, Juniors, 1st Prizes, and William Burry, Junior, 2d Prize...
...actually seeing and handling specimens of the subject described? A few years ago Professor Cooke, in giving a series of lectures on a course similar in some respects to this one, secured to the students the advantages of specimens. Can they not now be thus accommodated? Boylston Hall contains, or did contain, a collection which embraces just what is needed; can it not be used...
...hoped that this project will be carried out in the broad spirit in which it was conceived. There has also been formed recently an association called the Boston Art Club, which is to have rooms in the museum, but is now in rather close quarters on Boylston Street. This club, composed of artists and gentlemen interested in art, serves the very important purpose of bringing into more personal relations a class of men who can be of the greatest benefit to each other...