Word: documents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaking continued with enthusiasm until 10.50 o'clock. The chair first recognized Mr. L. McK. Garrison, L. S., who stated that the forgeries from the London Spectator and Times were still circulated by the Republicans. The comparison between English and American prices, also issued as a campaign document, was too indefinite to be criticized. There were twenty more who contended for the floor...
...their official duties but they have with commendable energy pursued their several special lines of study with benefit to a large class of people. Much valuable work has been done by the members of the Astronomical Observatory. Director Edward C. Pickering has issued a short but extremely important document, viz., "The First Annual Report of the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory." Seth Carlo Chandler has written "The Almucator," a volume of 222 pages. In the Medical School the writings have been unusually voluminous. Nearly every one in the faculty has furnished something...
Only one specimen of the hand writing of John Harvard has been known to be in existence, and is his signature to a document deposited in the Registry of the English University of Cambridge. Another document containing his signature and that of his brother Thomas has just been brought to light. Of this a correspondent of the Athenaeum writes...
...being executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard. A feature of no little interest is that this is not an antiquarian curiosity whose history has to be traced, with more or less of uncertainty and doubt, from one hand to another during a period of 250 years, but a document which not only is in legal custody, but in the self-same custody into which it passed so soon as the ink of the signatures to it was dry, and in which, I may add, it will remain so long as it shall endure. Custody is a point the supreme...
...report of the Finance Committee on athletics, which we publish this morning, is a most satisfactory document, in that it gives at least some knowledge of the financial condition of the various organizations-something which we have been desirous of publishing for some time past...