Word: newton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty years from the Halls of Harvard, had come from his residence in Philadelphia to attend this celebration. The Rev. Dr. Ripley, of Concord, of the class of 1776, and the Rev. Dr. Homer, of Newton, of the class of 1777, were followed By the Rev. Dr. Bancroft, of Worcester, and the Rev. Mr. Willis, of Kingston, of the class of 1778; and, as modern times were approached, instead of solitary individuals, twenty or thirty members of a class appeared at the summons...
Boston University will for the first time hold class day exercises this year. The ceremonies will be held on the private grounds of Ex-Gov. Claflin at Newton...
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS. 1. The early History of Infinitesimal Calculus. 2. Discuss Clifford's Philosophy of the Pure Sciences. 3. Should men who bring no Mathematics be accepted for honors in Physics? 4. To what extent do Newton's Laws of Motions involve assumptions that can be tested by experiment, and to what extent are they matters of definition...
Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes...
...John W. Day who gave the commencement part for the Divinity School last June has been ordained at the Channing Memorial Church of Newport. H. L. Wheeler of the same class has been established in West Newton, over the late Dr. Stebbins' Church...