Word: planning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., has founded the Ingersoll Lectureship at Harvard, which provides for one lecture a year upon the "Immortality of Man." The fund is arranged to be used on a plan similar to that of the Dudleian Lectureship. The first lecture on this foundation was recently delivered by Dr. Gordon of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, on "Immortality and the New Theodicy." Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish this in a small volume about the middle of February...
...plan of reserving seats for members of the University at Professor Moore's lecture last evening was most successful. For the first time, in the series of lectures by Professor Moore, students were able to get seats without joining in the rush of Cambridge citizens for the Fogg Museum an hour before the lectures commence and there wasting an hour in waiting...
...hoped that this or some similar plan of reserving seats will be adopted for all lectures which are likely to be at all crowded...
...case, because it would be to the manifest advantage of those men who are behind to make way for those who are between themselves and the flowers. Again it must be remembered that a slight delay in getting at the flowers is not a serious hindrance to the plan, since there will be plenty of flowers for everybody...
Compared with the old form of the scrimmage, the new plan promises to be infinitely superior. The dangerous and objectionable features are to be eliminated, while the good old custom is retained...