Word: guests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Very few students and a large number of Cambridge school-children composed the audience that heard Dr. Fewkes lecture on "Star-Fishes and Sea-Urchins," last evening. Mr. Nolen, the guest of the Natural History Society, introduced Dr. Fewkes, and stated that he was glad to welcome so many young people, for the policy of the society always had been to interest the young in Natural History...
...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
...that the song, "Fair Harvard," was composed in one of the rooms in the building now occupied by the Harvard Annex. The author, Samuel Gilman, belonged to the class of 1811, and while in Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836 he wrote "Fair Harvard." He was then the guest of Miss Fay - a niece by marriage - who owned the building on the corner of Mason and Garden streets. While her guest, Mr. Gilman, occupied the room over the parlor on the right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since...
...Louis Harvard Club give their annual dinner Feb. 21. The Chicago Club give one Feb. 2s. Mr. James Russell Lowell will be a guest...
...McCosh attended Harvard's celebration as an invited guest. He probably expected to derive some benefit for his college and much pleasure for himself from his visit. He naturally noticed that the stock of honorary degrees conferred by Harvard was exhausted before Princeton was reached. It had occurred to him that among the Faculty of Princeton College were men worthy of the hightest distinction it was in Harvard's power to grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this...