Word: coudert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Considerable interest is shown at Columbia College at present in the prospective junior ball, announced for December twenty-first. This reception is honored in most American colleges but not until this year has it been proposed at this institution. The committee, consisting of Messrs. Gildersleeve, Coudert, Gerard and Reeve, have obtained permission of the faculty to use the library building on this occasion. Instructors are cordially co-operating with the committee of arrangements in their endeavors. All Columbia students are invited to attend, and a great success is predicted...
...oration by Frederic R. Coudert, was the next thing on the programme. He said that Columbia was founded at the time of the French Revolution. Among the truths that have appeared since then the most important is that not knowledge but the art of using knowledge is power. Art is taught by faith. The university of the future is that which teaches nothing that is useless and everything that is good its duty is to elevate the standard of all professions, and to make men good citizens. The classics are indispensable studies. Mr. Coudert concluded with a spirited sketch...
...exercises at the opera-house will begin at eleven a.m. The orator of the day will be Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, '40. the poem will be read by the Rev. Dr. George Lansing Taylor, '61, and honorary degrees will be conferred. In the evening there will be a reception given by the president, faculty and alumni in the great library hall on the college grounds, and all the college buildings will be lighted and open for inspection. All the alumni, whose addresses, are known have been invited to attend, and a large number are expected. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...twenty-first annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York will take place in the Metropolitan Opera House building next Monday evening. Among the guests will be the Rev. Dr. Andrew D. Peabody, Frank Hackett, the Rev. Francis G. Peabody, F. R. Coudert, Chauncey M. Depew and Henry F. Van Dyke
...formulating plans to make the celebration an exceedingly interesting occasion: Committee of trustees, President F. A. P. Barnard, Hamilton Fish, the Rev. Morgan Dix, S. T. D., Joseph W. Harper, Jr., Seth Dow and Prof. J. Howard Van Amringe, secretary. Associated with this committee are Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, from the Alumni Association of the School of Arts; Mr. F. A. Schermerhorn, from the Alumni Association of the School of Mines; Dr. E. R. A. Seligman, representing the alumni of the School of Political Sciences; from alumni School of Law, David B. Ogden; from alumni School of Medicine...