Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans for the new boat house will arouse general interest. Not only do they show the undergraduates, who are hoping in the future to make it the headquarters of winning crews, that the graduates are with them and are doing their best to give Harvard athletics the finest possible equipment, but they also prove conclusively that the structure is to be first class throughout. The new boat house can do much toward centralizing and enlarging Harvard's rowing interests and evidently no pains are being spared toward making it as effective as possible. It is thus a practical example...
SOCIETY Day at the Dog Show.- The Governor and some of his staff, May or Quincy, and other prominent persons are expected to attend today...
...fact the whole object of the change from the old system is to give all men a better show for the 'Varsity, and to give every man of any experience, or of any promise, the benefit of class crew training. That this is the plan, is shown by the fact that in case two races for eights and one for four oars are not sufficient to keep all the likely men busy, Captain Goodrich intends to extend the system still further in order to give every one a chance...
...that the University has ever attempted to honor the great president, but it is a custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
...will give a course of lectures, open only to members of the University, on the English Novelists. The lectures will be both biographical and critical, and on each evening some passages will read from the author under discussion. Mr. Copeland will trace the resemblances between the different novelists and show how far the later ones are indebted to the earlier, but at the same time he will endeavor to make the treatment of each novelist complete and interesting of itself for the benefit of men who do not attend regularly. Sets of the works of the writers discussed and books...