Word: fives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...project is to erect a group of five new buildings. A central or administrative building will contain the lecture halls, offices, libraries, and the chemical museum. The other four will be laboratories, each devoted to one of the four branches of the science: organic and industrial chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, qualitative and quantitative analysis. Such a plan will require $500,000 for the construction of the group of buildings, and the same amount for the endowment. The $100,000 now being raised will be used for the first building, which it is proposed to name after the late Professor...
...original "Harvard College," built in 1638, or else Edward Goffe's house, which stood on the next lot, and before 1654 had been acquired by the College for use as a dormitory. It was called "Goffe's Colledge" and is described in the early College records as containing "five chambers, 18 studies, a kitchen, cellar, and 3 garrets." The position of the foundation wall to the west of Wadsworth House makes the identification of the building with the Goffe house the more probable. As the work of excavation progresses to the eastward, it is likely that the foundations...
James MacKaye '95 gave the second of a series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" before a large and interested audience in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. His topic was "The Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which are useful and useless; useful acts are subdivided into productive and consumptive ones; consumptive acts, in turn, are divided into positive and negative, and productive acts into pleasurable and pleasureless ones. Productive acts are further subdivided into compulsory and spontaneous acts...
James M. MacKaye '95, spoke on "The True criterion of Right" in the first of his series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" yesterday afternoon. He explained that in the field of industry and mechanics, our civilization is in keeping with our idea of the twentieth century, because scientific methods of Investigation have been applied. In the field of ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy...
...Harvard Wrestling Association has arranged a three months' season, beginning December 1, which is especially designed for football and crew men. This is also open to all members of the University, and includes five lessons a week, the price being $10 for the term...