Word: noah
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty then there were but two names that now appear-Noah Porter, tutor in Greek, and Elias Loomis, tutor in mathematics. The faculty then numbered 28; now it is 130. The old catalogue has 31 pages; that of today has 230 pages. The total number of students in 1834-35 was 450; in 1888 it is 1,350. The catalogue of 1834-35 says...
...annual business meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York was held on Wednesday of last week. President Eliot, ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale; Prof. W. G. Turner, of Yale; ex-President McCosh, of Princeton; George W. Cable; Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Athens, were elected honorary members. The following subjects will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many...
...last meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York the governing committee announced that the following new members, among others, had been elected: President Eliot of Harvard, ex-President McCosh of Princeton, Noah Porter, T. W. Higginson, and John Fiske...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the New York World appeared a report of the meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly...
President Noah Porter of Yale will preach a sermon in the Prospect Street Church, Cambridgeport, on Thursday evening...