Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...American Continent; March 13, Dr. Clarence John Blake, The Ear and the Telephone; March 20, Dr. H. P. Bowditch, Physiological Defects of Vision; March 27, Prof. E. C. Pickering, The Distance of the Sun; April 3, Mr. John Fiske, A Common Origin of Languages; April 11, Prof. J. D. Whitney, Is the Earth's Climate changing? April 17, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Something about Young Fishes. Tickets will be ready in a few weeks...
...familiar lines, "The clarets, etc. are Mr. Parker's direct importation, the result of personal selection from the best European vintages." Ober's receives a handsome notice, and Mr. King informs us that this famous restaurant is patronized by the Aimee Open Company and by the elite of Boston. Whitney's is of course enlarged upon, and the inevitable "Harvard Room" and "mutton-chop weighing a full pound before it is cooked" are dragged in. We drew a sigh of relief, however, to see that Professor Huxley's remarks on the subject of protoplasm were omitted...
...last regular meeting of the Natural History Society, Mr. S. H. Scudder read a paper on the "Origin of Early Types of Insects in Palaeozoic Times," and Professor Whitney one on the "Eozoon Canadense...
...FAMOUS ENGLISH MUTTON-CHOPS continue a specialty at Whitney's Equitable Building. They are served without extra charge to the students of the University in the handsomely furnished "Harvard Room," which is reserved exclusively for their...
...famous English mutton-chops continue a specialty at Whitney's Equitable Building. They are served without extra charge to the students of the University in the handsomely furnished "Harvard Room," which is reserved exclusively for their...