Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were strongly felt at Harvard, and the members of the Corporation were almost unanimously devoted to the popular cause; yet the usual courtesies were shown to the loyalist governor. An indication of Harvard's opinions and spirit at this time is seen on the occasion of one of her public dinners, at which John Hancock was invited to a seat with the Governors of the College; and, again, we see the same man elected Treasurer of the College in 1773. All this time republican principles and patriotic ideas were gaining the control of students as well as instructors...
...into barracks for the soldiers, and the officers were quartered in private houses and in the President's house. The Provincial Congress, meeting at Watertown, June, 1775, resolved that the Harvard Library and philosophical apparatus be removed to Andover. A meeting of the Corporation in July voted that a public Commencement was impracticable, and that degrees be conferred by a general diploma; and soon after the Overseers voted to remove the College to Concord, having found, on examination, that one hundred and twenty-five students could be boarded in that place. Part of the library and apparatus were taken...
...business will be held in the West Lecture-Room of Boylston Hall on Thursday, July 1, at 10 A. M. The Orator of the Day will be Rev. DR. T. D. WOOLSEY, Ex-President of Yale University, and the Poet, Rev. WALTER MITCHELL, Hv. '46, of Middletown, Conn. The public are cordially invited to the exercises in Appleton Chapel. Doors open at 12 M. Tickets for the dinner will be ready at the University Book Store on Class-Day morning...
...Diplomatic History and Public International Law. Three times a week. Prof. Torrey...
...Olio. It purports to be a description of Oxford University; it is in reality a "home" letter of the most commonplace sort. As a private communication we refrain from criticising it; but we cannot commend the taste which places such a document before even the limited portion of the public who read the College Olio...