Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week on the same day and one knows beforehand just what to expect. This could be easily changed and such a variation adds to the relish of their meals. By lessening the number of vegetables served each day a greater variety could be offered without increase of expense. The fish is almost uniformly bad and everybody would be willing to give it up on four days of the week if the quality on the remaining days could be improved. The same may be said of the chicken which is often positively unfit...
...Wednesday evening, Prof Alpheus Hyatt, of Technology, who was formerly connected with the U. S. fish commission, delivered a lecture on "Sponges" before the Natural History Society, in which he gave the results of his studies, some of which are as yet unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips...
...Robert W. Wood will read a paper on the "Development on the Goose-fish," before the Natural History Society this evening. Open to members of the University...
...Reilly did not appear and Dr. Appleton officiated as referee of sparring. Messrs. William A. Morrison and T. R. Kimball were the judges. The other officers of the meeting were: Clerk of course, T. D. Brainerd, '87; stewards, G. O. Draper, '87; H. D. Sears, '87; W. C. Fish, '87; W. L. Dearborn, '88; Russell Robb, '88; George C. Dempsey, '88, and T. Durfee, '89. Referee, W. A. Davis...
...following committees have the matter of the centennial celebration at Columbia College in charge and are now formulating plans to make the celebration an exceedingly interesting occasion: Committee of trustees, President F. A. P. Barnard, Hamilton Fish, the Rev. Morgan Dix, S. T. D., Joseph W. Harper, Jr., Seth Dow and Prof. J. Howard Van Amringe, secretary. Associated with this committee are Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, from the Alumni Association of the School of Arts; Mr. F. A. Schermerhorn, from the Alumni Association of the School of Mines; Dr. E. R. A. Seligman, representing the alumni of the School...