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Programmes of the crew benefit will be out Thursday, and will contain the names of all who take part in each event. It will be a time programme, each event to commence at a specified time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/24/1886 | See Source »

...this outer skin varies, in different parts of the body, from 1-240 to 1-12 of an inch. This increase in thickness is due, in a measure, to the pressure to which these parts, as the palms of the hands, are exposed. The cells of this skin contain a pigment which is so marked in members of the African race. Absence of it makes what are called albinoes, and strange to say, albinoes are commonest among the black races. It has been suggested that this pigment in the epidermis may serve the purpose of protecting the true skin from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnham's Lecture. | 3/11/1886 | See Source »

...recent debate between the presidents of Harvard and Princeton has called forth varied and extensive comments. The Freeman's Journal and the Churchman of New York, contain comments this week, the latter severely condemning the spirit of President Eliot's debate, which, the Churchman states, was almost atheistic in its general tendencies." - Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/27/1886 | See Source »

...pamphlet containing the annual reports of the president and treasury of Harvard College for 1884-85 shows an increase of thirty pages over that for 1883-84. President Eliot's report is devoted almost entirely to an elaborate study of the working of the elective system. Of the system itself the report says: "It is emphatically a method in education, which has a moral as well as an intellectual end, and is consistent with a just authority while it grants a just liberty." The twenty-one pages, on which is a complete record of every member of the classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Eliot's Annual Report. | 2/22/1886 | See Source »

...elective pamphlet of the coming year will probably contain many of the changes and additions which have been so much discussed among college men, and in the papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/20/1886 | See Source »

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