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...special meeting of the board of overseers was held in Boston Wednesday, the Hon. E. R. Hoar, president, in the chair. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in reappointing for five years from Sept. 1st, 1884, Dudley Allen Sargent, M. D., assistant professor of physical training and director of the Hemenway gymnasium; in appointing for five years from September 1st, 1884, Edward Newton Whittier, M. D., assistant professor of clinical medicines; Frank Winthrop Draper, M. D., assistant professor of legal medicine; in appointing as clinical instructors in the dental schools for 1884-1885, Horatio Cook Merriam...
...open question; who speaks the better English, the subjects of Queen Victoria, or the fellow citizens of President Arthur? still remains open for discussion. Perhaps it will never be determined, but for Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour...
...would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three gentlemen who had more votes turned out to be foreign-born, and therefore ineligible. Another singular aspect of this post-office academy -making is the fact, of which I am informed by a fellow immortal ranking high on the list, that he and certain others owed their high places to a special "boom" organized without their knowledge by some young admirers and parishioners,-these particular immortals being clergymen. There was also a special scientific "boom," he said, accounting for the especially high position...
...beginning of senior year, when commencement parts were given out, and he held office until after the annual cruise. This exemplary officer at first was the man who had been dismissed from the class the greatest number of times, but latterly, the position was given to the jolliest fellow in the senior class. As in all associations, the list of officers is a long one, so it was in the case of the "Navy," and the formidable list was headed next to the "Lord High" by the Vice Admiral, distinguished as the poorest scholar; the Rear Admiral, the laziest...
...lecture on "Recent Architectural and Archaeological Discoveries at Olympia" was delivered in Columbia College by Dr. Alfred Emerson, Fellow of the John Hopkins University. The lecturer described the characteristics of the Olympic games. He said : "Euphidos, after winning in one of the three-mile races, was so elated by his victory that he leaped out of the stadium and ran home to tell the news at Argos. It was sixty-three miles away, and he arrived there the same evening. The best jump of antiquity was one of fifty-three feet, and there can be no mistake in the figures...