Word: director
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class exhibition on the parallel bars, which was followed by an exhibition of Indian club swinging and juggling by D. J. Conroy, of the Y. M. C. A. The next event was a wand drill by sixteen members of the Boston Turn Verein, which was led by Mr. Eherhard, director of the B. A. A. gymnasium. After a bout between F. C. Curtis and F. R. Bank, with members of the H. S. A., came an exhibition of fencing by members of the association, tumbling by a class from the Y. M. C. U., and feats upon the horizontal...
...annual course of lectures at Vassar College promises to be unusually good this year. Besides weekly illustrated lectures on the "History of Art" by Prof. Van Ingen, director of the School of Painting, and the first of a series of lectures and concerts under the management of Dr. Ritter, director of the School of Music, lectures on the following subjects have been given: "Alexander Hamilton," by President Backus, of Packer Institute; "The Heroic Element in History" and "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day," by Dr. George P. Fisher, of Yale; "The Lotus in the Decorative Art," by Mr. William...
...last bulletin of the Royal Astronomical Society contains the first of a promised series of letters by Professor Holden, formerly of Harvard University, but now director of the observatory of the University of California. These Jetters will set forth at length the observations which have been made by means of the Lick telescope. A comparison of the results of the observations taken by Prof. Holden by means of the Lick telescope, and the results obtained by means of the best English and American telescopes shows that the Lick lens is immeasurably superior to any of its predecessors. Formerly there...
...meeting of the Dartmouth FootBall Association, the following delegates were elected to attend the convention to be held at Springfield, Mass., Dec. 11; H. P. Blair, manager; W. Odlin, captain; M. H. Beacham, junior director, Dartmouth will tie for the championship with either Technology or Stevens, as the convention accepts or refuses the protest of the Tech-Stevens game...
Some person at the Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N. Y., presumably a member of '91, defaced the freshly cleaned and repaired ceiling of the topographical drawing room with the number of that class. The director attempted, by questioning, to discover the culprit, but each member of the class, with but few exceptions, refused to state whether or not he was the guilty person. The matter was brought before the faculty and it was recommended that the class be suspended for one week, but no decision has as yet been reached...