Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...competitors for the Bowdoin Prizes, read his dissertation on "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time." The first part of the dissertation treated in an exhaustive manner of the boyhood and development of the Emperor Julian, his relation toward Christianity and to Paganism, and his contact with Neo-Platonism. The second part deals with the great Pagan reaction of the fourth century, with the immensity of the task to which Julian's religious beliefs had brought him, and with his ultimate failure...
Colonel Higginson's subject was "People Whom I have Known." In a most delightful manner he gave his personal recollections of some of the most famous personages he had come in contact with during his career: Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate and Wendell Phillips, the greatest orators of their time, and in the literary world, James Russell Lowell, with whom Colonel Higginson went to school, John Greenleaf Whittier, Margaret Fuller, and Longfellow, who was professor of French at Harvard when Col. Higginson was an undergraduate...
...checked. For the question is not alone between the Faculty and the students; it is besides, between the Faculty and a very large body of graduates, many of them old and some of them experienced. The feeling among the alumni of this city, with whom I have come in contact, is that the present evils in the game of football are in no wise an essential part of the sport, and can, therefore, be eradicated by some such means as those proposed by Mr. Emmons. It is believed that the Faculty is acting most inadvisably in adopting such drastic measures...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Physical Geography of Warren County, Iowa, Mr. J. L. Tilton; Review of Bayley's "The Eruptive and Sedimentary Rocks on Pigeon Point, Minnesota, and their Contact Phenomena," Mr. C. F. Marbut; Review of Penck's "Morphologie der Erdoberflache," Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Physical Geography of Warren County, Iowa, Mr. J. L. Tilton; Review of Bayley's "The Eruptive and Sedimentary Rocks on Pigeon Point, Minnesota, and their Contact Phenomena," Mr. C. F. Marbut; Review of Penck's "Morphologie der Erdoberflache," Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory...