Word: speciality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Those on one stair-case will be separated from those on another by a thick brick wall to serve as a fire protection and to deaden noise. Each suite will contain a study, bathroom, and, as a rule, two bed-rooms, but there will be a few single rooms. Special attention has been given to ventilation and lighting. Every suite will have a street and court frontage, and in every study there will be a large window eight feet wide with a stationary window-seat...
Henry M. Woodruff of the class of '98, assisted by several professional players, will give a special matinee at the Bijou Opera House on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25. Among the professional players are Mr. George Fawcett of the "Two Little Vagrants" company, Miss Minnie Dupree and Miss Jessie Busley who played the two little vagrants, Miss Maud Hosford from the Sargent Acting School in New York, and Miss Alice Fischer...
PROFESSORS and students wishing their hair trimmed in a way that will improve their personal appearance should call at Griffiths's Hair Dressing Rooms, 7 Brattle St., Harvard Sq. He has enlarged his place of business and secured the assistance of Geo. S. Betts, making five artists, all special hair cutters. Razors honed and cared...
...Bowdoin Prizes were awarded, while the James Gordon Bennett Prize in political science has never been given since its foundation. Lack of competition for this last prize is especially remarkable because it is open exclusively to Seniors, is in a subject which is studied by many, and often a special report or a thesis might be sufficiently elaborated without much additional labor. The date by which subjects for most of the prizes must be approved is now past, but it is safe to say that the committees in charge of them would dispense with formalities in order to arouse more...
...every possible means should be taken to gain this end; for, as incentives to original research and means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear the names of those who take prizes and men who may have worked for what they thought was a badge of distinction, are apt to feel that they have worked...