Word: reading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association last night the following report of the treasurer was read and accepted...
...FORBES, Capt.HARVARD ELECTRIC CLUB.- Regular meeting Wednesday, October 9, at 7.30 p. m. in room 4, Lawrence Scientific School. Mr. G. T. Page will read a paper on transformers...
...Sophomore class met in Upper Massachusetts last night for the annual election of officers. After the minutes of the last meeting, had been read, the presiden stated the object of the meeting, and declared himself ready to receive nominations for the office of president. The names of Mr. Rantoul and Mr. Landon were placed in nomination. A committee of three consisting of the secretary of the class, and a representative of each of the candidates, was appointed to receive the ballots, and the class proceeded to a vote. The vote resulted in the election of Mr. Rantoul, he receiving...
President G. Stanley Hall then read his inaugural address, in the course of which he said that, as business is absorbing more of the talent and energy of the world, so science is pervading literature, philosophy, and every branch of culture. The university should be strong where science is highly developed and should pay less attention to those departments of knowledge which have not reached the scientific stage. Our characteristic word should be concentration; we have selected a group of five departments and shall focus all our means and care to make these the best possible. The more advanced...
...opening exercises of Clark university took place Wednesday in the presence of fifteen hundred people in the main university building. General Devens began with a brief address of introduction and welcome; after a prayer, Colonel Washburn read a paper prepared by the founder, in which he said that although they had not the age of other universities, they had the privilege of using the experience of many centuries, and they proposed higher and better achievements than had yet been attempted. To the present department they intended to add others from time to time, until the full scope of the university...