Word: frames
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mosher '92, vice-president; chairman of the house committee, H. G. Nichols, '93; chairman athletic committee, F. U. Stearns '93. C. E. Noyes was elected to a vacancy on the house committee, A. N. Broughton '93, to the athletic committee. After the business meeting, Mr. J. E. Frame '91, addressed the association on "Harvard's Elective System." After the address a refreshments were served...
...plan which seemed most practicable was the erection of a new hall. Accordingly plans were drawn and a site selected. The new hall was to be a frame structure, and to accommodate over nine hundred men. It would probably have been put on Holyoke Street, opposite the Hasty Pudding building. The Corporation would have to advance the money for this building, and it stands ready to do so, though it feels that a more determined effort should be made to supply the increased demand with the present accommodations. President Eliot, especially, felt that the Dining Association should at least test...
...means necessary in the work of observation conducted at the observation conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried on equally well in another place. The reason, then for risking longer, in an old frame building, the existence of an almost invaluable library of scientific records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted to some fire-proof structure where, even though inconvenient for reference, it would at least be safe. The need of the observatory...
...fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never be replaced. Since the last annual report, in which the death of Mr. Bowditch, one of the greatest benefactors...
Protessor James's article on the three years' course is, however, of great interest as showing exactly the frame of mind in which the majority of the Harvard faculty view the proposed change. Professor James sets forth the various motives for it vigorously and, in many cases, plausibly, but not always convincingly...