Word: established
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leverett Salton-stall occupied the chair. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke was added to the committee to visit the observatory. The board concurred with the president and fellows in appointing William Henry Baldwin, Jr., as Proctor. Communications were received from the president and fellows conveying their votes to establish a Peabody Professorship of American Archaeology and Lithology in the university, and selecting Frederic Ward Putnam, A. M., as professor in said department...
Revolving time invariably brings back to us old friends and old schemes. Some time ago it was proposed to establish a reading-room where the students might be able to consult the prominent daily papers and the leading periodicals. It was found to be impracticable, and the plan died a natural death. The plan is again revived and now promises to be realized. An effort is being made to interest the students in the movement, and it is hoped that it will soon prove an institution of permanence and general benefit. There has long been needed some means by which...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg a Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It was recently urged, in a communication to the CRIMSON, that the college should establish a course in journalism. The correspondent holding that by this means the student could acquire the experience given to law students in the moot-courts of the Law School. An interview with some of the best known and most experienced journalists of Boston, which it has been my good fortune to have, would convince one to the contrary. In their opinion such a course would be of no practical use whatever, unless a model newspaper office was established, and that...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The suggestion of a correspondent in a late issue of the CRIMSON, about establishing a course of lectures on the Common Law, meets the approval of many men preparing for the Law School. Such a course, in one way or other, is given to undergraduates at Columbia, University of Michigan and Universityof Virginia. Now that Harvard is about to establish a chair in journalism, let her not be behind her rivals in the import ant study...