Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seemed to be the feeling that a club should be formed, whose principal objects should be to make the new Exeter men coming to Cambridge acquainted with the alumni already down here, and to show men at Exeter that the graduates of the school have its best interests at heart. A committee of five men-one from the Law School and one from each class-was appointed to draw up a constitution for the club, and to present to the club at its next meeting other matters which required immediate decision. The following men compose the committee: W. C. Boyden...
...never forgot his native country, and his speeches on Irish questions form the most valuable of his works. Burke was conservative and a utilitarian, always calm and just in his opinions and his actions. He wished to place Ireland on an equal commercial footing with England, and endeavored to show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England, and it was in combating this idea that the greatest of Irish statesmen passed his life...
President Seelye, of Amherst, refused to testify in the Andover controversy, and the supreme court has ordered him to appear and show cause for his refusal...
Professor Cooke, having met with a slight accident, was unable to give his lecture on "The Two Sicilles," with which he was to have completed his course on Italian cities, last evening. In order not to disappoint the audience, Dr. O. W. Huntington Kindly consented to show the views which Professor Cooke had collected in Southern Italy and Sicily...
...members of the University were invited to contest, the club has started a whist tournament which promises to be equally successful. The proposed chess match with an outside club will also be watched with interest by the college. We congratulate the club upon its enterprise and success, which show that other scientific games, besides the various branches of athletic sports, have a firm foot-hold at Harvard...