Word: recess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the recess it was announced that through the generosity of a prominent merchant of Boston, whose name is not made known, a chair of comparative pathology is to be founded at the Medical School. The benefactor advances $100,000 for the endowment of the chair. This will be the first establishment of a professorship of comparative pathology in any American university...
...judges for the University debate with Yale were decided upon during the recess. They are Elihu Root of New York, Albert H. Shaw of the "Review of Reviews," and Walter H. Page, editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...performance was decidedly better than the Brattle Hall performance. Encouraged by the favorable criticisms of several English professors, the cast went back to work rehearsing a week before the recess, and were able to make great improvement in several characters, and especially in the rather difficult exits. Entire new costumes for Mr. and Mrs. Croaker, and new wigs, by Rothe, for the whole cast, improved the staging of the play very much. The actors were highly complimented by the Hartford people, and it is generally felt that the performance was a credit to the society and to the college...
...nine. There has been considerable improvement in fielding-although in this respect the infield is still weak-the base-running is about the same, and the batting is better than it has been for several years. The make-up of the team has been unchanged during the recess, so that the team play together much better now. There is, however, much still to be learned in this respect, as the backing-up has been but little developed. Captain Dean is playing far better than ever before. In batting he leads the nine, and in fielding he has shown great improvement...
...first of a series of spring chess tournaments to be made permanently annual if the first turn out well, will be held during the second week after the Recess, from Monday, May 4, to Monday, May 11. The spring chess tournaments it is proposed to make interclass, so that places won by members of the classes will count toward their class championships. Entries may be made in bluebook at Bartlett's drug store and will close at six sharp Friday, May 1. The entrance fee will be fifty cents and is payable at the time of entry. There will...