Word: months
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Engineering Society.The executive committee of the Engineering Society has planned a series of public lectures to begin after the mid-years and extend through the year. One lecture will be given each month by some speaker well known in the scientific world. Mr. Clemens Herschel, of New York, will lecture on Roman Acqueducts in the latter part of February. In the latter part of March Francis B. Crocker, professor of electrical engineering in Columbia College, and inventor of the Crocker-Wheeler motor, will speak. His subject will probably be the Definitions of Electric Measurement. These dates are not positively decided...
...busy laying the mosaic floor in the main hall. This work will be finished in a week. Twenty-five men are doing the stucco work in the front room on the first floor and in the large lecture room. They will finish the work in about a month and will be followed by the carpenters. The wood-work will require several months, so that the building will not be finished before June...
LECTURES ON ENGLISH ART.Mr. Humphry Ward, of London, will give four evening lectures in the month of February on "English Art in the Eighteenth Century, with special reference to Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney...
...Griswold will lecture to the society next month on some geological subject illustrated with lantern slides...
...done with hard work. He never ceased to be a Scotchman; for though he went to Samoa to keep alive, he always longed for the "hills and home." This is seen not only in his verses but all through "David Balfour." Stevenson died on the third day of this month. He was carried to the top of a high mountain and there buried...