Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wendell, while Mr. W. H. Pickering directed the general photographic work. Professor Pickering had twelve persons assisting in one way or another during the three or four busy hours. The photographic plates obtained were not all developed at once, but a sufficiency of each set to show that the apparatus was in good order. The time signal of the observatory was critically compared on Saturday, and was found to be correct, within one-tenth of a second...
...Hale will conduct the chapel services for the rest of January and till the 19th of February. He announced yesterday that the Scripture readings would be from the Gospels, in such order as to show what he called the "Chronology of the active life of Christ," and illustrate the changes of opinion regarding Him, as cause produced effect, and one event led to another...
...matches two brutes stand up and try to disfigure each other, and when the blood flows or when a man is knocked out the spectators cheer. Any one who says that this is an exhibition of a fine exercise, or that it is anything but brutalizing, looks at the show with the eyes of his imagination.- N. Y. Mail and Express...
...rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich men's sons are, as a rule, wild and extravagant, and by their actions tend to bring the whole college into disrepute. The chief reason, however, for our "bad eminence" is the readiness which the newspapers show to discredit all colleges, and Harvard, as the largest, gets the greatest share. There is a natural hostility between college-bred men and those who are "self-made," to which class belong the majority of journalists, and this enmity expends itself in spreading false rumors and injurious statements. The only...
...that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...