Word: subject
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large audience assembled in the lecture room of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, to hear Dr. Wheeler's third lecture on the Acropolis of Athens. Dr. Wheeler had reached that interesting portion of his subject where he was to take up the Parthenon, which probably accounts for the increased interest...
...indicates-a sort of council to keep an eye on the doings of the faculty and students. They are, for the most part, men who live in or near Cambridge, and are generally men of high standing in their own callings, and an excellent body of advisers on any subject to which they may give their full attention...
...leaving marked and lasting effects on the character and tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating to the conduct of life-everything, in short, outside the special subject which the professor teaches. It is a rare thing to find a graduate of one of our leading colleges who has brought away any respect for the faculty in any character but that of men of learning. As men of the world, or as social or moral philosophers...
CONFERENCE FRANCAISE.- There will be an important meeting of the Conference Francaise in their rooms tonight at 7.36. Mr. C. C. Batchelder will read a paper on "The Carnots," which will be followed by an informal discussion on the subject of the comedy. It is hoped that as many members as possible will be present...
...large and appreciative audience assembled in Upper Boylston Hall last evening, to hear Dr. Ward's second lecture on Anthropology. His subject was "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development," and it was treated in his customary clear and interesting style...