Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...land values would be direct, economically collected, simple, incapable of being shifted, just and easily borne: Am. So. Sci. Ass'n, discussion by E. Benjamin Andrews, S. B. Clarke, Lewis F. Post, W. L. Garrison, and James R. Carret...
Thursday afternoon Messrs. Henry B. Stone, H. A. Dement, Benjamin Carpenter, William Burry, and Moses J. Wentworth, the Executive Committee of the Chicago Harvard Association entertained President Eliot, with the patrons of the evening's address, at a course luncheon in the private dining rooms of the Union League Club...
...Copley" medal for 1890 has been awarded to Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University, by the Royal Society of Lodon. This medal is yearly given to that man who has given the most valuable aid to scientific research during the year. It was first given to Benjamin Franklin. It is the highest honor ever attained by a scientific man to receive this medal...
...Teaching of History." Edward Campbell Mason of the Law School has a paper upon "Presidential Protests," Herman V. Ames of the Graduate School, one on "Amendments to the Constitution of the United States," and Edwin V. Morgan, also of the graduate department, will speak on "Slavery in New York." Benjamin Rand, of Cambridge, Mass, will have a paper on "The New England Settlements in Arcadia." Harvard monopolizes about one-third of the programme...
...PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC.A course of eight public lectures on the Psychology of music will be given by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman in Sever Hall during January, February and March. The purpose of this course is to Inquire into the operations of the mind concerned in the hearing of music. An examination of the sensation of tone will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made...