Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilkinson, who is at present coaching both the Hasty Pudding and the Sophomore Theatricals, came from England solely for this purpose. Under his management both plays are making unusual progress...
ADVOCATE.- Meeting in 19 Hilton block today at 1.30. Business editors especially should be present...
...have been requested to come together today that there might be placed in your hands my resignation of the presidency of the university, and also of the professorship of intellectual and moral philosophy. It is my desire that the resignation may take effect at the close of the present academic year, or as soon thereafter as my successor shall be ready to enter on his duties. In asking to be relieved of these offices with which you entrusted me seventeen years ago, it is only fitting that I should express to you my sincere thanks for your uniform courtesy...
...machine-room in the basement of the east end is one of the most important resources of the laboratory. It is here that the professors and advanced students materialize their ideas, and make their new apparatus. The work now being done is manifold. Professor Hall is at present busy in investigating how much steam is lost in the cylinder of an engine when in work. On account of the extreme heat thermometers cannot be used, and Professor Hall is therefore employing a very delicate electrical instrument. The relation of light to electricity and magnetism is being worked...
...large number were present in Sever 11 last evening to hear Professor A. A. Ripley lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer." Germany, Professor Ripley said, now enjoys a national life and has a deep and dignified national literature, in which Goethe stands supreme. We must become acquainted with Goethe as a man, however, that we may know his true worth. With a view to the study of Goethe's life and works the Goethe society was organized. This society is engaged particularly in examining the manuscripts of Goethe, which, owing to the extinction of his family, have come into the possession...