Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year last evening in the rooms of the D. U. fraternity. The meeting was well attended. The treasurer's report showed the club to be in an excellent financial condition. The secretary reported that letters of acceptance of honorary membership had been received by him from President Eliot, Dr. Scott, Professors Cilley, Wentworth, and Tufts of Exeter, Mr. Kittredge and Mr. Sawin of Harvard, Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, George S. Hale. He announced that any members of the classes of '85 and '86 of Exeter might at any time receive his diploma by sending his permanent address to Professor Tufts...
...less than three of the articles in the Atlantic Monthly for June are from the pen of Harvard professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting...
...yard, the recitation halls, Memorial Hall, the two gymnasiums, the Law and Medical school buildings, the observatory, the laboratories, the museums, the two chapels, the Hasty Pudding building, and several private houses. Even the old Thayer Common Hall, which has been destroyed, is represented. A portrait of President Eliot, and a drawing of the John Harvard statue also find places among the pictures. Everything is brought up to date, and even the promised gate is anticipated. At the corners of the outside border of the engraving are the various seals which the college has had at different times...
...large number of false summonses were sent out yesterday by some malicious person or persons. A copy of a genuine summons and one of a false summons are posted on the door of U. 5, under the signature of Professor Eliot...
...lecture to be given this evening by Professor Lumboltz, of the Academy of Sciences of Norway. Owing to circumstances over which the Natural History Society had no control, an earlier notice of the lecture could not be given. Professor Lumholtz lectures here at the invitation of President Eliot and Professor Shaler, and it is earnestly hoped that he may have a large audience...