Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Ashley is to be absent from the Department of Economics. Dr. Cunningham of Trinity College, Cambridge, will give two new courses, "Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects" and "The Industrial Revolution in England." Dr. Cummings will also give a new course. Courses 15, 14, 10, 7 1, 7 2, 12 1, and 11 are not going to be available during the year. Course 12 1 will be given as 12 1 and 13 and 16 are made full courses...
...almost a war footing. The affirmative must prove that there exists a class which must be kept out and that any restrictions which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would cause a vacancy in the labor market and skilled laborers would be forced downward and be compelled to do unskilled labor...
...lectures will all be illustrated with stereoptican views and the object of the course is to show the part which the effects of the western campaigns played in the Civil War. They begin with St. Louis and end with Grant's victory at Chattanooga in the fall of 1863. This afternoon Dr. Fiske will begin by calling attention to the importance of the work done by General Lyon and Francis Blair in Missouri in the early summer of '61, and will go on with the main out-lines of the Western story as far as Donelson...
...ceiling is finished up into the roof. The staircase is shut off by movable screens in such manner that the seating capacity of the hall may be increased to 240. From this hall a spiral staircase leads to the lower floors, forming a secondary means of exit. At the western end, two society rooms and a bedroom complete the building. In the basement are the coat rooms, lavatories, bicycle room...
...society has on hand several minor matters which are soon to be undertaken. The stone near Wadsworth House is to be moved to a better and more protected site, and the old sun dial on the western end of Massachusetts Hall is to be renovated...