Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Present indications are that today's game with the Carlisle Indians will be one of the hardest of Harvard's season. Every year the Indians have made an up-hill fight against adverse conditions, but this year they have grasped the finer points of football and are particularly strong. No defense, however, that they can employ should prevent Harvard from scoring, for reliance can be placed not only upon the end interference, but also upon the plays through the line, especially with Kendall and Ellis playing. With his long punts, Hallowell should equal Hudson in kicking. Skilful as the latter...
Professor S. M. Macvane will talk this evening on "England and the Transvaal, the present situation, its causes and kindred topics." The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock...
...definite set of instructions is to be drawn up and printed upon slips sent the judges before the debate. During the debate the judges are to be seated separately in order to avoid the present tendency of the debaters to speak to one part of the house. In the selection of judges, a list of twenty will be submitted together with the question, six weeks before the debate. Two weeks later nine names, in order of preference, will be returned. Of these nine the first three in order who accept will be chosen to judge the debate...
Professor Trowbridge has recently discovered a method by which he has obtained a more intense source of heat than has ever been reached before. By means of it he will be able to study metals under new conditions of temperature. At present he is engaged in experimenting with gases, in the hope of obtaining spectra similar to those exhibited by the stars. With the new apparatus he has also produced x-rays of remarkable intensity and penetrating power...
Professor C. A. Adams will lecture before the Harvard Engineering Society tonight, in Sever 11, on "The Mental and Moral Influences of an Engineering Education." All members of the University are invited to be present...