Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House of Commons and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, will lecture this evening on the Relation between Canada and the United States. Mr. Bourinot is an eminent authority on Canadian constitutional questions and his paper read before the Historical Society last week showed great familiarity with his subject. The same paper has since been read at Johns Hopkins University. The lecture tonight will touch on extradition, the fishery treaty and other questions of present interest...
...expected it is extremely interesting, containing, besides a sketch of his remarkable career on the stage, many anecdotes of Power, Wallack, Macready, and in fact all the great American actors of the last half century. The first of the Present Day Papers is written by William Chauncy Langdon, the subject being "The Problems of Modern Society." Seven of the most sociological critics of America have formed a group for the purpose of discussing social problems, in a series of essays of which this is the first. Miss Susan N. Carter contributes a paper on "Street Life in Madrid," with several...
...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...
...subject discussed under "Topics of the Day" is the high rent charges for college rooms. The arguments advanced in favor of a decrease in rent are to the point, and lay bare the evils brought about by the present high rent. The communication touches the same subject as the second editorial. The Athletic Outlook is a straightforward article on the causes of Harvard's athletic defeats of the last few years and the present outlook, which, according to the writer, is "no more discouraging than any that have preceded...
Theme III., a narrative, will be due on Tuesday, November 19. A note of the subject will be due one week before...