Word: hist
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports, and to coax away the pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton and the Bearded Lady; in a second, Hist 5, were the Dwarf and the Big-headed Boy; and a third, N. H. 6, contained a large collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth size. Phil 5 contained a living crocodile, and was connected with F. A. 2, in which was a gorgeous panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land. Sanskt seems...
...SHALER will give any required information concerning Nat. Hist. 1 and 4, the Post-Graduate courses in Physical Geology, the Post-Graduate courses in Palaeontology, and the summer school of Geology in his lecture-room in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (northeast corner), on Wednesday the 20th; also on Wednesday the 27th, at 11 A. M. - Bulletin Board...
SUETONI D. JULIUS, '80.IT may perhaps be gratifying to many of our fashionable beaux, a race of animals for which I have a special respect, to know the antiquity of a part of their dress so valuable to them as the pantaloon. Pelontier, in his Hist. Celt., L. 2, c. 6, and Cluvenius, in his Germ. Antiq., L. 1, c. 16, plainly describe it; but not to trouble them with what Commodore Trunnion calls outlandish lingos, I extract the following passage from the valuable history of Dr. Henry, the authenticity of which on the most minute as well...
...sympathies of the College are extended to those gentlemen in Nat. Hist. 3 who were disappointed in their expectation of finding on the paper the four questions they had anticipated and prepared. Perhaps next time they will trust more to the text-book than to the voice of rumor...
...that "all studies will be elective." I was contemplating a study of the modern languages, when I was informed that Italian and Spanish were not included in the "scheme." My father suggests that I had better pursue one of the natural sciences, but, as I was conditioned in Nat. Hist. 3, I object to awakening unpleasant memories. Fancying that I would have a soft thing on geology while at sea, I thought of taking that, but I have given it up, for they tell me one of the Yale professors lectures three times a week in that course, and nine...