Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Mr. McMaster will continue to act as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Professor Burr, who was recently elected to fill that chair, having been induced to remain at the Troy Polytechnic School...
...Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has given $50,000 to found professorships in History, Literature, and Ethics in the University of Virginia...
...chapel of Christ Church, Cambridge, Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7.45, entitled "The United States Government Expedition to Tasmania to observe the Transit of Venus," to be illustrated by views by John Moran, thrown by a powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only 400 tickets are to be issued; 200 have already been secured...
...courteous explanation: "We have an explanation for the Cornell Era, that referred to us rather discourteously in a late issue. The color of our cover was chosen for us, dear Era, O, ever so long ago, long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell to found a family monument at Ithaca; long before Cornell became as great as it is to-day. The 'bandy-legged individual' on the cover represents the venerable Governor Yale, an elderly gentleman, a royal governor that befriended Yale College when the noble red-man built his camp-fire...
Thursday, Jan. 18. - Thirteen men present. Pull seven hundred strokes. Run two miles. Mr. Dana "coached." During the past two weeks the men have improved on the "catch" and use of the slide. The shoulders "droop" at the "beginning," the backs are not kept straight, and above all the recovery is "ragged. The following men are now candidates for the crew: Legate, F. J. Le Moyne, Harriman, W. M. Le Moyne, Loring, Littauer, Schwartz, Jacobs, Brigham, Crocker, Preston, and Conlan...