Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following selections were sung: "Blessed are They," Tours; "Hail ! Gladdening Light," Field; and "Jesus Grant me this I Pray," Sponholtz. The latter was a tenor solo, sung by E. M. Waterhouse...
Boylston Chemical Club. A Talk on the Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Acetylene, the New Illuminant. (Illustrated by experiments). Mr. P. McGeorge, of the Acetylene Light, Heat, and Power Company. Boylston...
...nature and uses of money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
...educational problem which President Eliot takes up is suggested by, and receives some light from, his summary of the courses most generally elected. Some of the more elementary of the latter,- in English, French, German, History and Natural Science, he thinks could wisely be given in the upper grades of good, secondary schools. He does not discuss this question at any length, but the recommendation in itself is of no little interest and will, we believe, carry considerable weight. The secondary schools are brought up again in the mention of a revision of entrance requirements now under consideration...
This list of subjects also sheds some light on an educational question now under discussion-the question of the most natural and most needed additions to the existing programmes of secondary schools. It suggests that in endeavoring to enrich the programmes of secondary schools, and thereby to carry into schools subjects now dealt with by colleges, the selection of the new subjects now dealt with by colleges, should be made from the most elementary and most attractive courses named above. The indication is that English, French, German, History, and Natural Science are the copies which might be most judiciously added...