Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor G. P. Baker will lecture at the open weekly meeting of the Prospect Union tonight on "The Oldest Form of the English Drama...
...Club will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary tonight at the Hotel Vendome by a reunion and dinner. This club, which is the oldest in the Law School, was started by Professor J. B. Ames '68 and seven other first-year men in the winter of 1870-71. Although it has been the custom for the undergraduates to hold an annual dinner, never before have graduates been invited or has a reunion been attempted...
...churches of San Ambrosio in Milan and of San Michale in Pavia are probably the oldest existing types of Lombard Romanesque. The early builders were rude and feared to attempt much, hence most of their buildings have not lasted. Gradually the Italian influence made itself felt and the buildings became more beautiful. The sculpture was especially rude; but imaginative. The Lombards had no liking for saints and crosses, for church decoration, but preferred animals and dragons, usually in attitudes of fighting. But they did not always have this way. Lombard workmen could not always be obtained, and when Greeks...
...oldest of the Governor's three children, Frederic B. Greenhalge, is at present a member of the class...
...current number of the Illustrated American contains an article, "When Furness was at Harvard." The Reverend William Henry Furness, who died recently at Philadelphia, was the oldest living graduate of Harvard. He was graduated in 1820. The article is illustrated by a picture of Dr. Furness and cuts of Holden Chapel, Hollis, Holworthy, and University Halls...