Word: recess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor MacVane will not lecture in History I. directly after the mid-years as previously reported. Professor Channing will lecture in the course as far as the Reformation; then Professor MacVane will lecture till the April recess, and after that Professor Channing will again take the course...
Just before the holidays the Canadians who are now at the University were brought together by invitation of Mr. Montague Chamberlain. A resolution to form a Harvard Canadian club was unanimously passed, and a committee was named to prepare a constitution during the recess. This committee reported at a special meeting last Saturday evening and their constitution, with slight amendments, was adopted. The new club has an opening membership of thirty-two, comprising several officials of the university. Its officers are: President, Mr. F. W. Nicholson, of the Graduate department; vice-president, Mr. C. W. Colly, of the Graduate department...
...meeting of the course in N. H. 16, Tuesday evening, Mr. Wood '91, described some experiments which he made during the recess on the melting of ice under pressure. The trial was made with a hydraulic ram crushing the ice in a steel cylinder. The ice was not liquefied by a pressure of twelve tons to the square inch, equal to sixteen hundred atmospheres or to the weight of a mass of ice twelve miles thick. A series of experiments on the subject will be carried...
There appeared in the CRIMSON about a week previous to the recess, a misstatement in regard to the receipts of the Football association. It represented the association as having a surplus of something like $8,000; and from this people have inferred that the crew this year, would be in no need of money by subscription. As a matter of fact, however, the crew will probably receive no money from the surplus, which is far less than was represented. The accounts of the Foot Ball association have not yet been fully compiled, and for that reason a more detailed financial...
Just before the Christmas recess the students in this University from the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Norfh Dakota and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming territory, held a meeting at the rooms of Mr. F. H. Shaver, 5 Thayer. It was agreed that students from the states named above should form an organization to be called the "Western Club" for the purpose of encouraging young men in the west to come to Harvard College and of helping them to get settled when they get here. There will be no dues in the society and it is to be hoped that...