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Lithology. Special subject: The General and Microscopic Characters of Olivine. Dr. Wadsworth. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 3 P. M. Lectures at the Museum are open to teachers free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 11/18/1882 | See Source »

Field day passed off quietly, without any occurrence worthy of special note. Interest in boating, if not dead, is quite soundly sleeping, but will doubtless revive when the completion of the gymnasium affords opportunity for practice during the winter. Base-ball is monopolizing the enthusiasm of the athletes and students generally, especially since the victory over the Syracuse Stars. Work has begun on the long promised base-ball and athletic grounds, and Cornell will soon have ample room for developing her skill and muscle and for exhibiting that skill and muscle when developed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL. | 11/18/1882 | See Source »

...proposed by the faculty to introduce a system of honors, a system which Cornell has been heretofore almost wholly, and perhaps happily, without. Our only prize of special value at present is the Woodford prize in oratory, amounting to $100, and open to seniors. By the new plan two sets of examinations will be held toward the end of the college year, one of which will be for midcourse honors, open to sophomores, the other for final honors, open to seniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL. | 11/18/1882 | See Source »

...special meeting of the overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, at the office of the treasurer in Water street, Boston, Hon. E. R. Hoar in the chair, Henry Grosvenor Carey was appointed instructor in vocal music for the current year; Frederick Bradford Knapp, instructor in surveying and drawing; Dwight Moses Clapp, clinical instructor in operative dentistry. It was voted that a school of veterinary medicine be established in the university, and that its faculty be constituted in accordance with the statute relating to faculties. The following were added to the committee on languages: Henry W. Haynes, Francis Peabody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/17/1882 | See Source »

...special meeting of the board of overseers will be held this morning in Boston to act upon communications from the president and fellows, to consider the question of discipline at commencement, and of assigning scholarships to special students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/16/1882 | See Source »