Word: attending
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gerrish '01 will leave today for New York to attend the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, to be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel tomorrow at 2 p. m. It is understood that the committee will then appoint a manager and a referee for the intercollegiate games, and also consider various questions which have come up concerning the games to be held at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo...
...University Debating Club has been invited by the debating clubs of Columbia and Cornell to attend or send representatives to the debate soon to be held between these two colleges in New York...
...work done by the different observatories varies greatly in character. Private observatories attend chiefly to some special research for which their equipments or situations are favorable. At Greenwich the work consists of testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory...
...that it is desired by the political managers that Harvard shall send on a delegation to attend the Inauguration at Washington on March 4, and that the newspapers are hinting that the delegation should be a large one, so that Harvard may outdo Yale and be assigned to the head of the procession. I cannot refrain from expressing the hope that Harvard will send no delegation, but will remain quietly at home and attend to her own affairs. Quite apart from political questions and whether one wishes to endorse the course of the government or not, it seems...
...Harvard men are assisting in industrial and evangelistic work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. Fifteen men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill where from 75 to 100 Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back to China...