Word: opening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subjects are as follows: Money, May 6; Bi-metallic Money, or the Silver Question, May 8; the Representatives of Money, May 9; the Representatives of Money (continued), May 13; National Debts and Foreign Exchange, May 15; Taxation, May 16; Capital and Labor, May 20. These lectures will be open to the public...
...reported that the Professors' retiring-rooms in Sever Hall will be heated by steam, and will also be supplied with open fireplaces and "other appurtenances of comfort and enjoyment...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
MEMORIAL HALL will be kept open during the recess. Allowance will only be given for temporary absence...
...system of secret entries is also open to criticism. When the entries were public, if any event did not "fill," those who were interested in making the meeting a success could persuade persons competent to enter to do so before the entries closed, and thus insure an interesting meeting. The failure of the meeting of March 8 was, in part at least, due to the fact that the entries were secret. One, and probably two, of the events which failed to occur would have taken place had the entries been public. The only reason for keeping the entries secret...