Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next meeting of the Harvard Union will be on Thursday, Jan. 6, 1881. Debate on, Resolved, That the British Government should re-establish its authority in Ireland before legislating on the land question. Affirmative, Messrs. Hoar, '82, and Maude, '81; negative, Messrs. Jameson, '81, and Putnam...
...COMMITTEE, consisting of Messrs. Beale, Williams, Van Benthuysen, Jameson, and Putnam, has been appointed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a legislative branch of the Union for exercise in parliamentary practice. The Committee will hold public meetings to hear arguments for and against the plan; the important arguments of the speakers will be embodied in the report of the Committee...
HINTS FOR HOME READING. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York, 1880. This book, we imagine, may do good in very illiterate families, that have never attained to higher reading than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that...
...last meeting of the Harvard Natural History Society, the following new members were elected : DeWindt of '81; Buell, Gardner, Cabot, Putnam, Goddard, Dabney, Hardon, W. E. Stone, Oxnard, Sewall, Sedgwick, Warren of '82; C. B. Perkins of '83; Bangs and Denman of the Scientific School...
April 15. Mr. F. W. Putnam, "The Mound-Builders of the Cumberland Valley...