Word: givens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduate and Undergraduate Courses, The Lecture System in Graduate Instruction, Culture vs. Specialization in the Graduate School, Should the Ph.D. be a Teacher's Degree Only? The Value of Fellowships, Should the Minimum Time of Study for the Ph.D. be More Than Two Years? Should the Ph.D. be Given on Examination and Thesis Alone without Regard to Previous Work? Teaching as a Profession. The Scholar's Ideal, Papers will be limited to fifteen minutes; men speaking in discussion will be limited to five minutes...
...history of the fund from which the deturs were purchased was given by Dean Briggs, and then the prizes were distributed. He next considered the Bowdoin prizes and in his remarks made this interesting statement: Prizes for English were given to the following men while they were in College: Edward Everett '11, Jared Sparks '15, George Bancroft '17, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Josiah Quincy '21, Benjamin Robbins Curtis '29, James Freeman Clarke '29, Charles Sumner '30, Francis Bowen '33, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar '35, Henry Whitney Bellows '32, Jones Very '36, Richard Henry Dana '37, Edward Everett Hale '39, Thomas Hill...
...addresses, Professor S. M. Macvane will speak on "Democracy and Diplomacy," and the Hon. George F. Hoar '46, Edwin V. Morgan '90, and others will take part in a discussion on an historical subject. President Eliot will also give a brief address. Lunch at 1 p. m. will be given by the President and Fellows of Harvard College in Memorial Hall. Afterwards members will have an opportunity to visit Harvard and Radcliffe under guidance of the history clubs of the two colleges. At 3.30, the President and Corporation of Radcliffe will give the ladies who attend the convention...
...business meeting of the association will be held at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Museum, and in the evening a dinner will be given at the Brunswick Hotel...
...second of Mr. John Blair's course of modern dramas, "Ties" (Les Teuailles), by Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second...