Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every man present was called upon to speak, and credit is due the efforts of all. The second dinner will be held just before the summer vacation...
...large and appreciative audience assembled in Upper Boylston Hall last evening, to hear Dr. Ward's second lecture on Anthropology. His subject was "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development," and it was treated in his customary clear and interesting style...
...called the attention of his audience to the fact that there are two distinct theories relating to the origin of the world and the nature of things in general. The first, or older hypothesis, holds that an uncreated being formed the world with matter he created. He then made man and placed him upon it. The will of this omnipotent being is the force that set the world in motion and from which all energy springs. The second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries to account for the origin...
According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life of a man...
...school has about three hundred scholars, ranging in age from about eleven or twelve to twenty. They are divided into six forms and a "remove" or graduate department. A man is ready for college at the end of his fifth form year, the sixth form being equivalent to our freshman class. School work begins at nine and lasts until noon; commences again at four and continues till six, with a half-holiday Wednesdays and Saturdays. In addition, an hour in the evening is devoted to preparing the next day's lessons. Marks are given on each recitation under the heads...