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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...usually possible to foretell with something near accuracy whether a lecture will be meagrely attended, well-attended, or crowded. From the success of Professor Moore's exhibitions last year, one certainly might have supposed that a like series this winter would not fail to draw large audiences. If it is likely that a lecture will be meagrely attended of course no seats need be reserved. If it is thought that a lecture will be either well attended or crowded such a proportion of good seats as the lecturer thinks adequate, should be reserved for students. If it is wholly impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/20/1897 | See Source »

...Moki Pueblos of Arizona, which consists of a large number of more modern specimens, was opened in the same building; paintings and drawings add to its value. These two well arranged collections taken together cover a long period of the history of the Pueblo tribes and can not fail to be most useful to the student of the Pueblos and Cliff-Dwellings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exhibitions at the Museum. | 1/13/1897 | See Source »

...TAYLOR.'VARSITY BANJO CLUB.- Rehearsal at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Every man must be present without fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 1/8/1897 | See Source »

...fail to see the point of the argument that we should extend the exercises one or two days, because "there are now so many spreads. that the guests do not and can not enjoy them." I will not speak for more eating; but I do favor the setting apart of several hours of an afternoon for spreads, in order that they may be more of the nature of teas. Under the present arrangement Seniors entertain either in football clothes-as I have seen-or in a more suitable apparel, put on in much haste, after a rub down. With several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/7/1897 | See Source »

Professor Alexander F. Chamberlain of Clark University will give a lecture under the auspices of the Harvard Folk-Lore Club, on Wednesday evening, December 9, in the Lecture room of the Fogg Museum. The subject, "The Mythology and Folklore of Invention," is one which cannot fail to be of great interest. The lecture is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Folk-Lore Club. | 12/1/1896 | See Source »

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