Word: john
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leaving their names at the office, all who wish to do so may attend morning prayers at St. John's during Lent, instead of at the Chapel. The service begins at 8 o'clock...
PROFESSOR JOHN FISKE will give next month, in the Old South Church, a course of new lectures on "Early American History." In April he will repeat the course in New York...
...JOHN FISKE has resigned his position as Assistant Librarian of the College Library, and Mr. Samuel H. Scudder is to be his successor. Mr. Scudder has been for several years connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also with our Scientific School...
...Natural History Society lectures have now been definitely arranged, and are as follows: March 6, Mr. Justin Winsor, The Earliest Maps of the American Continent; March 13, Dr. Clarence John Blake, The Ear and the Telephone; March 20, Dr. H. P. Bowditch, Physiological Defects of Vision; March 27, Prof. E. C. Pickering, The Distance of the Sun; April 3, Mr. John Fiske, A Common Origin of Languages; April 11, Prof. J. D. Whitney, Is the Earth's Climate changing? April 17, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Something about Young Fishes. Tickets will be ready in a few weeks...
...HOLMES, in his interesting memoir of John Lothrop Motley, has given a glimpse of Motley's college career. Motley entered Harvard College in 1827, at the age of thirteen, and at the end of his Freshman year stood second or third in his class. He made no effort to maintain this rank, and soon neglected his college duties to such an extent that he was "rusticated," which expression Dr. Holmes finds it necessary to define as "sent away from college for a time...