Word: oldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unusual interest. The subject for debate is the political question now most prominently before the country. The management are making a determined effort to revive the interest, both of the members and of the college at large, in the Union. The society is one of the oldest of its kind in the country, and should receive heartier support than has been accorded it in past years...
...Harvard club of Chicago gave its thirty third annual dinner at the Richelien last Saturday night. The club is the oldest and strongest of the local alumni associations, and includes within its membership some of the city's most prominent men. Upon the menu card was an etching of the new Harvard gate which is the gift of the second president of the club. Professor G. H. Palmer was present as the dele gate from the university and was the first to respond, the toast being "Good Old Harvard." He said, "Harvard is rapidly becoming the great democratic college...
...most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only self-imposed obligations. He receives no remuneration, and many of his duties are far from enviable; yet the proportion of private docenten to the total number of the university teaching force during the last fifty years has been about 25 per cent...
...oldest living graduate in the United States is Amos F. Parker, of Fitzwilliam, N. H. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1813 and is nearly 98 years...
During the past year the Observatory has suffered a severe loss in the death of one of its oldest friends, the last survivor of those who took an earnest part in its establishment. The active aid rendered by Mr. J. T. Bowditch in every attempt to extend the work of the Observatory has done much to bring it to its present condition...