Word: order
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 150 people assembled in Sanders Theatre last evening to attend the meeting of the Indian Rights Association. The Rev. Mr. Lougfellow called the meeting to order and read the statement of the association. Its aim is to investigate the home life of the Indians on the reservation. The most important things accomplished so far have been the passing of the Dawes bill and the defeat of the Sioux reservation bill. The association publishes an annual statement which will be sent to any one on receipt of postage...
...college authorities, in order to keep up with the increased number of students, have enlarged the corps of instructors by two, swelling the total of those occupied in teaching here to the creditable figure of 181. The present year gives every indication of being one of the most prosperous in every way that the University has seen, and the day is not far distant when the catalogue will show an enrollment of over two thousand students. The Price Greenleaf bequest to the college appropriates $12.000 annually to be distributed in scholarships ranging in sums from $150 to $250 a year...
...hours); altogether ten hours a week. Greek came next, occupying, with New Testament Greek, seven hours. Rhetoric (the writing and speaking of the mother-tongue) enjoyed the third place of honor, employing six hours. Oriental languages held the fourth place, occupying five hours a week. Mathematics stood next in order, with two hours. The catechism and "common-places" were equally favored with an allowance of one hour. History and botany were put on half allowance, each with one hour a week for a half-year. (11) Altogether in the scholastic week at Harvard College in 1642 and 1643 there were...
...spite of the fact the Christmas recess will take the majority of students from Cambridge and vicinity, the religious meeting to be held on next Sunday evening at the Globe Theatre has not been postponed on that account. In order to make this service a success, it behooves every man who lives in Boston to attend and do his utmost to assist the gentlemen in charge. The chorus will necessarily be much reduced from the one of last Sunday, and every man who can is requested to be present and assist in the singing. This may involve a little self...
...read between the lines is often an index to the value of a piece of writing. In this sketch any one whose experience has led him to sympathize with Daspaw can read words of truth between the lines. The story is very much out of the common order and outshines some of the best of the writing which has appeared in the Advocate this winter. "Fotheringhay" is an interesting description of the castle in which Mary Stuart met her sad fate...