Word: publication
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting information upon the subject which he has chosen. The names of Professors Sumner and Walker are familiar to everybody, and the positions which they hold at Yale will doubtless secure them a warm welcome here. We trust that these lectures will be largely attended by undergraduates and the public...
THERE of the successful competitors for Bowdoin prizes have read their dissertations in public, to audiences which were large for Harvard College. Mr. W. A. Smith's essay on "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert...
...astound me! Do not other organizations of the College appear in public...
...Yard one afternoon to breakfast at the "Holly Tree" (then a mere log cabin), after he had been at Cambridge for about a month, he was confronted by the then Registrar, Cusset Jeremy Whitcombe by name, who said, "Brown, I shall be obliged to send you a Private and Public at once, next a Special, and the week after a Suspension, - so I 'd advise you to make the most of your time...
...fickleness." If the Advocate refers to the Executive Committee it shows an ignorance of the delicate business they had in hand. The only fault that can be found with the Executive Committee is their delay in sending a private letter to Cornell explaining our position. To have made public the many complications with which they were at the time embarrassed would have been making matters worse, and we do not think they are to blame for keeping silent until they had arrived at some definite decision among themselves...