Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service a business meeting was held to consider the question of a new building, especially whether the building should be restricted to the religious societies to the exclusion of the social societies. Professor Palmer had suggested that the new building should have on the first floor a series of rooms devoted to the religious societies, rooms which could be thrown together for receptions of any kind. On the second floor he suggested that there be a reading room and various smaller rooms that might be given to certain small societies. The third floor he thought should consist of a lecture...
...March Atlantic contains two articles that will be of especial interest to Harvard men, since they are written, one by Brook Herford, and the other by Professor Palmer. Mr. Herford's article is called "An Old English Township," and in it he describes some of the curious changes and chances which have entered into the history of the little settlement of Singleton, in Lancashire. The description has a delightful simplicity of manner and a charming lightness of touch that seem almost to give one a whiff of the very breath of the English country air. No one could give such...
Professor Palmer's "Doubts about University Extension," must send a chill down the backs of the many warm supporters of that new system of education. Professor Palmer's "doubts" arise in the attempt to answer the question - Are the aims of university extension practicable? On this point, he says: "We cannot with certainity say that they are not, but it is here that doubts arise, - doubts of three sorts: those which suspect a fundamental difference in the two countries [England and America] which try the experiment; those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, President Eliot, Bishop Phillips Brooks, Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Rev. Edward Hall, Col. T. W. Higginson, Justin Winsor, Rev. William Lawrence, Edward Hooper, Professors, Child, Norton, Briggs, Palmer, Royce, James, Jackson, Kittredge, Greenough, Wendell, Lyon, Ames, Hill, J. W. White, Smith, Thayer, Toy, Perce, Taussig, Lanman, Phelps, Channing, Lane, Dunbar, Secretary Bolles, Hon. S. Lincoln, Rev. Percy Browne, Dr. D. D. Slade, Augustus Lowell, John S. Dwight, William G. Russell, Col. Henry Lee, Martin Brimmer, Geo. Putnam Leverett, Saltonstall, Waldo Burnett, Joseph Burnett, Lothrop Thorndike, Mr. Schlesinger, Frederic Cunningham, Dr. Wyman and Dr. E. R. Coggswell, Edward Burnett...
JOHN S. COOK.HARVARD RELIGIOUS UNION. - Professor George H. Palmer will speak tonight at 6.45 in Sever 10. All members of the University are invited to be present...