Word: news
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard has been presented with a new dormitory by Mr. J. H. McNamee.- Yale News...
...concert was ended by a superb and stirring presentation of Beethoven's third symphony. This symphony was completed in 1804, and dedicated to Napoleon, but the news of the latter's assumption of the title of emperor so angered Beethoven that he tore off the title page, and restored it only when Napoleon died at St. Helena. The term "heroic" is applied to it, not in the sense of a military hero, but in that of a perfect man. The four movements depict man's various sensations: in the first, youthful and active emotions, followed by the mournful and solemn...
...late Rev. Frederick Frothingham, of Milton, Massachusetts, the sum of $30,000 is left to Harvard College for the endowment or enlargement of a professorship in Ecclesiastical History. No official announcement of the gift has yet been received at the Office, although it is earnestly hoped that the news may prove true. Mr. Frothingham graduated in '49, and was a devoted friend to the college...
...almost incredible piece of news meets the students this morning. Adelbert Shaw, the great, strong athlete of the freshman class, was drowned while rowing on the river Monday afternoon. The story of the accident is a very uncertain one, and can at best only be surmised. Shaw went down to the boat house with the rest of the crew Monday afternoon, and as the barge was full Captain Perkins decided to let him go out in a single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin...
Captain Perkins went on to Shaw's home in Fishkill, N. Y., to break the news to his parents. He returned last evening, and at midnight went back with the body...