Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history of the University would fall naturally into four or five divisions. One lecture of the course might be given on its foundation and history during the colonial period, another on its part in the revolution, a third on Harvard before the late war, and a fourth on the part that she took in that war. Four men could certainly be found to lecture on these or similar subjects with great profit to the students...
...followed by H. E. Addison, whose subject was "Any Old Thing." In the absence of A. H. Brewer, who was kept from the dinner by illness, C. Brewer spoke for football. He reviewed the athletic achievements of Ninety-six, and said that whether there should be 'varsity football next fall or only class football, the class would be sure to keep up its preeminence in the game as it had done in the past...
...steady decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone down to eighteen years and ten months. The fall is very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years...
During the Mohammedan government at Bagdad, science made great headway. The Arabians were essentially a scientific people. They invented a new branch of mathematics, algebra, and were skilful in chemistry and astronomy. Constantinople became the greatest seat of learning in the world. With the fall of the Turkish Empire came the Renaissance, and Greek learning was spread throughout Europe. It was accompanied by a decay in morals which pervaded the whole social organization. This explains the hostile attitude which the church took toward the New Learning...
...first concert will be given at the University Club, Boston, April 6, by the members of the fall club. The following men are at present singing on the Club...