Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Todd of Amherst who has charge of the expedition to Africa to view the sun, has planned a system of pneumatic valves worked by electricity by which the photographic apparatus may be worked automatically during the total eclipse...
...Springfield game is too clear to need an explanation, Our correspondent has been upon the grounds himself and speaks therefore intelligently. According to him it is perfectly possible to make arrangements for coaches, and if this be true, measures ought immediately to be taken with that end in view. The-tally ho are well established features of the intercollegiate games, and certainly their occupants, particularly as they are so numerous, ought to be provided for as well as other spectators. We heartily endorse the sentiment of the communication, and commend the matter to the immediate consideration of the football management...
...literature at Yale. The foundation for the professorship, $50,000, has been given by a few gentlemen who desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty than his privilege to express in public his opinion, in case he may by a careful exposition of his own motives perhaps help others to arrive at a clearer view of political affairs. Now who of us does not believe that President Eliot's views as expressed in his Bay State club speech, are the result of manly, conscientious thought? And, believing this, who of us would deny him the right of every American citizen to state his views wherever and whenever...
...closing the debate for the negative Mr. F. W. Thayer L. S., said that he preferred to belong to a party with a future even brighter than its past. In a political question, he said, people are apt to take a superficial view of matters and draw from their opinion without further investigation. Mr. Russell's election would not be for the best interests of the people for several reasons, firstly because by his election the Boston democracy is recognized to power; secondly, our institutions, public schools and various departments are of the best and need no change; and lastly...