Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lectures to a large audience. He began at the beginning of English Literature. likening its growth to that of a tree; and investigated when and where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings lecture...
...present candidates are promising as far as looks go. The majority of them are fully of the average size while the remaining three or four are large strong men. A few of them have rowed at their preparatory schools, but the greater number have never done any rowing before; all, however, are learning fast. For so early in the year, the condition of the men is excellent; they are all well and are rapidly gaining in weight under their work...
...strictly law library in this country. I fully appreciate the value of the Moak collection and consider it remarkable that a busy lawyer during his life time should have made it. The institution that has acquired it is most fortunate. It is desirable, however, in view of the present size and richness of our own library that something should be said of what we have at home...
...policy of the Astronomical department as outlined and carried out by Prof. Pickering has favored for many years the use of much smaller telescopes than those in use at many colleges inferior in size to Harvard. This is on account of the atmospheric conditions of the Eastern United States and of Europe, the best results cannot be obtained with the largest instruments...
...that something like the present literary exercises of Class-day existed from the earliest years of the college, and records of them can be traced as far back as 1648. The exercises were of an extremely serious and weighty nature and little resembled those of the present day. The size of the graduating classes in the early years of the college made the present institution of Class-day impossible. Like other customs, then, at Harvard, Class-day is a development. It was never formally created but grew from an intermingling of several ancient festivities, more especially those of Commencement, Exhibition...