Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...memorial meeting, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall as first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme court, will be held in Sanders Theatre at 4 o'clock on February 4. Acting-president Walcott will preside, and Professor J. B. Thayer, of the Law School, will deliver an address on John Marshall's character and work, his position as a man and as a jurist. Admission to sanders Theatre will be by ticket...
...meeting in sanders Theatre is one of a great number that will be held by law schools and Bar Associations all over the country in honor of the appointment of the first and greatest of the American chief justices...
...adopted in the Middle States, then Harvard, with the rest of the New England colleges, would be called upon to decide whether or not general admission examinations should replace the present individual requirements. Sooner or later, at any rate, Harvard will probably face such a decision, in which the chief point at issue would be the question as to whether or not a compromise with other colleges on examinations would lower the notably high standard of the University. On this question and on the general theory of uniform entrance examinations, the following opinions of Harvard professors may be interesting...
...Fogg Art Museum, for the year 1899-1900, is shortly to be published. The list of accessions, which forms the leading feature of the report, shows that steady and gratifying progress has been made in the formation of a valuable working collection of original works of art. Chief among these are the undetermined head in red marble, and the four paintings of religions subjects, presented by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95. Two drawings by Samuel Prout two by John Ruskin, and a water color by J. M. W. Turner, have been acquired,--the last being an exceptionally fine example...
...work with various instruments in Cambridge and at Arequipa. Twenty-one variable stars were found in addition to a new star in the constellation. Aquila, which makes the sixth "Nova" discovered at Harvard by means of photography. At the Blue Hill Station, apart from routine observations, the chief work has been the continued exploration of the air by kites--twenty-two flights being made. The average height of these was 8973 feet, and the greatest single height being 15,800 feet. This system of lifting self recording instruments into the free air, originated at Blue Hill...