Word: danae
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SUMICHRAST.ANY student who may have taken either Dana's Manual of Geology, Le Contes' Elements, or Geikie's Class Book, from the shelves in Room 2 at the Museum, will confer a great favor by returning them at once...
...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...
...generally understood that the meeting in Sanders Theatre, addressed by President Eliot, Mr. Storey and Mr. Dana, was an attempt to accomplish partly this object. Public speakers of high character such as Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Schurz, ev-Governor Russell, who have already consented to address the University, will from time to time present the reform question in all its aspects. Minor addresses, to the club particularly, as to the workings of the reform in various definite parts of the country will also be given...
During some of the worst weather of last week the men who were arranging for the addresses of Messers. Storey and Dana in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday night, tacked the advertisement of the meeting on several of the college bulletin boards. Imagine their surprise and indignation to find, not two days later, that some of their placards had been torn down and others for an event outside college interests substituted. If this were the first time such a thing occurred, it might pass, but it frequently happens that placards are removed before the date of the event which they advertise...
...Richard Henry Dana was introduced by President Eliot to speak of the way of securing Civil Service Reform. He gave many illustrations of particular cases in explanation of the general method adopted, which is that of careful examination in all branches of the service. It has been objected to this that the examinations could not be adequate, and would be easily passed by young and inexperienced men. Such is far from being the case. The questions asked are invariably such as need experience and special fitness to answer them, as is amply proved by the fact that almost without exception...