Word: reconstructed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...impartial delineator of public characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies in his ability to reconstruct past times and public sentiment. Professor Rhodes's lecture tonight on "Edward Gibbon" should be especially interesting inasmuch as it is the study of one notable by another...
...Alumni Association of Harvard College is working through its executive committee so to reconstruct its constitution and rules as to make it an efficient organization to handle questions, such as the better arrangement and management of Commencement, which it is impossible to deal with under the present constitution. Among the changes suggested are the following...
Professor Sumichrast lectured last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room on "The Seats of the Government during the French Revolution." He stated that the object of his series of lectures was to give a view of the Reign of Terror in Paris not usually taken by historians, and to reconstruct the setting of the scenes of that terrible period. Professor Sumichrast described the places where the Assemblies and the Convention held their sittings--the Archiepiscopal palace, the old Riding School and the Tuileries--telling of the stirring events which took place in each: he also explained the workings and significance...