Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...degree of A. M., however, has, from an early period in the history of Harvard College been given honoris causa and has fulfilled a useful function as an honorary degree, as the names of its recipients (in the Quinquennial Catalogue, pp. 367-403) show. The University has not as yet thought it desirable to discontinue its accustomed practice in regard to the honorary degree of A. M., and for the present, at least, considers the question of maintaining this old and valued distinction as clearly separable from that of instituting...
...affirms what the communication this morning says that "the principle objection to it seems to be that of expense." But yesterday's editorial suggested that it was in the power of the Committee to conduct the exercises without great additional expense; and economical plans, given in today's communication, show that the increase in expense, caused by the dance, need not be great...
These indoor games give valuable practice in performing in competition and show, to some extent who are likely to develop into point winners for the Mott Haven team in the spring. It is encouraging to see so many men enter them...
...proof sheets of this year's University Catalogue show the following summary: Officers of instruction, 202; students, 2811, a gain of 179 over last year. The university has suffered a serious loss by the death of Professor Theodore G. Wormley, on January 3. Dr. Wormley was a member of the Medical Faculty for twenty years, and was a chemist and toxicologist of great reputation...
...century this was less noticeable, but in the sixteenth century art became very artificial and in many cases coarse. The really great work of the Italian Renaissance was in sculpture and painting, which was perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen. The architecture of the period did not show much change but Professor Moore said he would devote the rest of his lecture to illustrating it in order to finish that portion of the subject...