Word: smith
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SOME of Charles Sumner's gifts to the College Library are described by Miss Kate V. Smith in the March Scribner...
THERE of the successful competitors for Bowdoin prizes have read their dissertations in public, to audiences which were large for Harvard College. Mr. W. A. Smith's essay on "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert...
Walter Allen Smith of the Junior class, $100, for a dissertation on the "Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes"; William Warren Case, $75, for a dissertation on "Sir Philip Sidney as a Writer"; Arthur Hale, Junior class, $50. The report on classical and scientific subjects will be made next week...
...first eight of the Pi Eta from '80 are: W. H. Alley, G. Bement, A. F. Breed, W. W. Gooch, E. H. Hastings, C. H. Pew, J. D. Redding, F. M. Smith...
...provisional assignment of Commencement parts is as follows: Orations, Hale, Swayze, Crawford; Dissertations, Macfarlane, Case, Andrews, Hills, Hyde; Disquisitions, Patten, Thayer, R. W. Ellis, Faunce, Poor, Sylvester, Schofield, Dalzell, G. M. Burrill, Newhall, Porter, F. Brewster, Atherton, Almy, Lawrence, J. A. Brown, Keyes, Madden, H. Butler, W. E. Smith; Essay, Taussig...