Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frieze, and responded to by President Angell. After various other addresses an adjournment will be taken to one of the larger lecture rooms, where Prex. will hold an informal reception, at which all so desiring may shake the returned president by the hand. With this touching ceremony the festivities close. It is rumored that the mayor of Ann Arbor, with his usual desire to preserve the public peace, has caused a force of special policemen to be sworn in for service on the day of reception, lest the exuberant spirits of fresh or soph should disturb the peaceful quiet...
...course of his lecture on the "Chinese at Home," E. B. Drew, Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, says: "The chief characteristic of the Chinese, as a nation, is industry. Their working day begins at dawn, and lasts till sunset. Schools open at sunrise, and do not close till 5 P. M., there being but one short recess during the day. The emperor and his court rise soon after midnight, and court audiences are given between 5 and 8 o'clock in the morning. After sunset very few people are in the streets, the Chinese, like domestic fowls, retiring early...
...daily weather report seem to trouble the minds of the Princeton editors more than any other department of the HERALD. Close your eyes, editors of the Princetonian, when you come to the weather report, and, if you wish, glance over the rest of the paper...
...with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole...
...affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring had received an honorable dismissal. When he renewed his application for membership in September last the question was asked him if he had not, since his withdrawal from the college, connected himself with a Greek-letter society. His reply was that he had, and that...