Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night a team of twelve players from the Harvard Chess Club played a match with the Boston Chess Club at the rooms of the latter. The games resulted in a draw, the score being...
...substituting for it a broader division into three general grades. The change would be for the better, just as formerly the change from per cent. marking was doubtless an improvement. In estimating a student's work it is almost impossible to draw very fine distinctions between the different grades. When it comes to a variation of a few per cent., the absurdity of attempting it is apparent; and the difficulty of that form of estimate extends, though in a less degree, to the system of marking by letters...
...meeting of the junior class last evening it was voted that the president should appoint a committee of three to draw up resolutions upon the death of G. C. Gibson. The president appointed E. V. Frothingham, E. R. Mathews and J. A. Gade...
...William R. Huntington, D. D., of Grace Church, New York, will preach in Christ Church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Two years ago, when preaching in the same course of sermons, Dr. Huntington filled Christ Church to the doors, and it is expected he will draw out a large congregation tomorrow. He is one of the best known clergymen in New York and is an able speaker. He was spoken of as Bishop of Massachusetts after Bishop Brooks's death, but declined to have his name used. The members of St. Paul's Society are especially urged...
...LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: There was a reason why the University should honor one who has adorned the profession of an actor. It is a part of a university's work to draw attention to imaginative literature, which consists largely of plays, both comedies and tragedies. The University rightly honors one who has exquisitely interpreted this part of literature. To elevate young men by speech should be the aim of a university, and this an actor knows how to do. I present to you tonight one who has inspired and elevated hundreds of thousands of human beings, Mr. Joseph Jefferson...