Word: ago
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Captain Southerland began his lecture by saying that prior to the Atlantic squadron's departure from Hampton Roads a year ago last December there was no real American fleet. The admiral had to whip the sixteen ships into shape so that they formed an organized fleet...
...earnest and serious effort to spread the study of the Bible throughout the University. The opportunity of hearing President Eliot needs no further indorsement than the mere announcement. Mr. Carter is not so well known to the present College generation as to that of six or seven years ago. At that time he left the University for India, the representative of the Harvard Mission, to become one of the great Christian influences in the far East. Only because of the need of his presence in this country among the student associations of the various colleges was he recalled from India...
...Bangs began by explaining the meaning of his subject. He said that a short time ago he came to a Western town to deliver a lecture, and found on arriving that he had already been introduced in the shape of a photograph; who sat for it he did not know. A copy of it was in an apothecary's shop and under it the inscription, "Danderine did this and we can prove it." He was much surprised to see in the paper that he was going to speak that evening on "Salubrities I Have Met," since he had written that...
...eight-oared shell and a four-oared shell are being built for the University crew by W. H. Davy of Cambridge. The order for the shells was placed two weeks ago and the eight-oared shell will be finished in about ten days. In design it will not differ essentially from last year's boat. The four-oared shell will not be finished for three weeks. Davy has built most of the University shells for the past few years...
...ancient pianoforte with the advantages which modern acoustical studies have made possible. Mr. Dolmetsch, who is an eminent authority on ancient music, has taken personal interest in the preparation of the program. The flute concerto, supposed to be by Christian Bach, was discovered in manuscript but a short time ago and is now in the possession of Mr. George B. Weston '97; it has never been publicly performed...