Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fair will be held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Friday and Saturday, in order to increase the Alpheus Hyatt Memorial Fund for field lessons for Boston children. The women of the standing committee of the fund, together with many school teachers in the overcrowded districts, are working earnestly to make the fair a success, so that what has heretofore been haphazard field instruction may be systematized, and become a necessary part of the curriculum. Professor Hyatt, who established the fund, was for a long time Professor of Natural History at Harvard...
...Governor Douglas, on behalf of the city, by Mayor Daly, on behalf of the University, by President Eliot, and by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, representing the First Church in Cambridge. There will be music by the orchestra of the Cambridge Manual Training School, and singing by a chorus of school children...
...first number of the Illustrated Magazine, which appeared on Saturday, contains the following articles: "Emerson's Empericism," by H. W. Dresser '03; "Opportunities of Harvard Men for Social Service," by A. E. Wood '06; "Yale, Pennsylvania and Harvard Football Material." by G. C. Townsend '06; "Two Children," by A. E. Wood '06; "Work of Harvard Memorial Society," by H. A. Mumma '07 "The Song of the Nymph," a poem, by P. B. Kayser; "The Scarlet Letter:" an appreciation, by J. E. S.; "Work," from an address by the late Emile Zola to the Paris students...
...essay entitled "The Place of Thomas Traherne in English Poetry"; a second prize of $100 to F.H. Lahee '07, for an essay entitled "The Theory of Evolution." The other second prize of $100 was divided equally between the two essays, "The Dramatic Standards of the People," and "Concerning Children," by H.A. Bellows '06 and C.C. Washburn '05, respectively...
...realize so perfectly all the possibilities for good that the situation contained, that I have noticed with much regret some opposition to the fulfilment of his plan. I see that the Boston Herald, lately chastened by a Harvard graduate for printing malicious lies about his young children, expresses the conviction that the Dean's course compromises the dignity and authority of the University. The Herald praises the good sense of the undergraduates who favor the most drastic treatment of the case. Smarting itself with recent stripes it howls for the punishment of others. It doubts that the terms...