Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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First, beat down all attempts to withhold testimony. Establish the custom of compelling students to testify, no matter how nearly this may approach the principles of the old time inquisition, and how difficult it may be to change the present sentiment, or:
"In the forty-first annual report of the director of Harvard College Observatory, laid before the board of trustees early in the present year, Prof. Pickering states that the munificence of the late Robert Treat Paine has now begun to provide the encouragement which he desired to give to the...
The procession started promptly at 9.15 a.m. The line of march was down Fifth avenue to Thirty-fourth street, thence to Broadway and up to the Metropolitan Opera House. There was little decoration along the line of march. The procession was five blocks long and was formed in ranks of...
It gives us great pleasure after our week's vacation to note the changes that have been made about the college yard with the view of improving the appearance of the turf. In many places the earth has been upturned, carefully raked and put in readiness to receive the flowers...
For a proper understanding of the development of the universities, it is desirable to glance at the growth of the prototypes of all universities, Bologna and Paris. The causes which made these institutions possible are the same. When the crusades had thoroughly leavened the social and mental structure of Europe...