Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fourth number of the Advocate shines neither on account of its merits nor of its demerits. The editorials are perhaps its best feature. They deal with the Christmas vacation, the CRIMSON-Princetonian discussion of the proposed renewal of relations with Princeton, the Yale game, the Eleven and the Glee Club trip. With regard to the Princeton matter the Advocate asserts that Harvard should take no initiativein negotiatlng for a game. The paragraph on the 'varsity eleven and its prospects at Springfield is exceedingly cheerful...
...arrangement will be after the plan of the British Museum. The fourth floor serves as a broad gallery running about the large specimen room, the centre being left open to better the conditions for light. The gallery will also contain show cases. The funds for this spacious exhibition room were raised by Professor Cook and Dr. Huntlngton. When all the plans have been carried out and the building stands completed, it will be one of the finest museums in the world. Boylston Hall will then be given up entirely to the Department of Chemistry...
...foods in the ordinary sense of the term, and neither serve to build up issues nor to warm the body; third, they do however arrest decay of the tissues, so that they may be very beneficial to old men, but never to young men in good health; fourth, the saloon is an evil-it is the poor man's club; fifth, all drinking between meals is injurious...
There has been much discussion as to whether the symphony should come at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of the programme. Wherever it had come last evening no one could have failed to enjoy the manner in which Mr. Nikisch gave the fourth symphony of Beethoven. His conceptions are always so excellent that one feels quite justified in taking them as standard, but if he has any fault it is that of being a trifle sentimental. The introductory adagio, as also the adagio third movement, might have seemed to some tastes a little exaggerated, but altogether...
Professor J. H. Thayer conducted the fourth college Conference-and an exceedingly interesting one-last night speaking on The Revised New Testament of 1881. The Bible, said Professor Thayer, has undergone seven revisions. In 1880 a committee was formed to consider the expediency of revising the New Testament of King James' version, and on their recommendation a committee was formed to undertake it Committees were formed on both sides of the water, and each member came to the meeting with suggestions on the translation or on the text. The debate was long and earnest. Much public interest was shown...