Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is an article in the Nineteenth Century on "Recreation," by Sir James Paget, an eminent London physician...
...inaugural dinner of the Bristol University College Club, a few weeks ago, Sir John Lubbock made a most interesting speech on the subject of a higher education. He claimed that the sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Oct. 22, 1883. PRESIDENT C. W. ELIOT,Dear Sir: This morning I went to the boat house to find out what I could of the cause of the accident. The faults which helped to cause the accident were...
...Dear Sir: The cost of the University Bost House to the college, including all payments for putting the building in order and for changes and improvements made in accordance with plans furnished by the students...
...daughter of the premier, Miss Helen Gladstone, the vice-principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, will probably have a voice in the arrangements. It may perhaps be considered apropos to this topic if I mention here that the subject of the new opera by Mr. W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will turn on the "girl graduate" question. Mr. Gilbert has already dealt with it in his humorous poetical drama founded on Tennyson's "Princess," and in the new piece at the Savoy the idea is to be further developed. The scene of the opera will be laid...