Word: personality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compete for the Scholarship. They will be examined on the following subjects: History of Architecture and the Arts immediately connected with it; Elementary French, projective and perspective of shades and shadows; construction, (theory and practice); free hand drawing from the cast. This examination will last six hours. A person to be eligible for this scholarship must be under thirty years of age and must have studied two years with an Architect resident in Massachusetts...
...lecture given last night at 61 Mt. Vernon street, Boston, by Mr. Richard Hodgson, consisted mainly of extracts from unpublished accounts of apparitions drawn from English sources. The visual phantasms of sane persons are divided into two classes-those of the living and those of the dead. Under the head of phantasms of the living are included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because...
...decide important questions in regard to the feather and light-weight sparring will be held this afternoon at 1.30 in 47 Matthews. The Association is desirous of consulting the wishes of those who intend to enter, so that it is necessary that all possible contestants be present in person or by proxy in order to ensure the carrying out of their wishes...
...work they do on the college papers, which is, on a small scale, practically all very well, but, like everything else, the theoretical part of newspaper work ought to be coupled with it. At Yale they have already foreseen the advantage of this by securing the services of a person, who is thoroughly competent to deal with the minor details and intricacies of the large daily publications, to give a series of lectures on that subject. A course of this kind would tend to be a sort of stepping-stone for those who intend to make journalism their profession, from...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...