Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of discussion in "Toples of the Day," is the system of mid-year examinations. The writer claims that "at the best they are merely a necessary evil." and that they are responsible for the marking system with its bad effects. He argues further that a man would work more stedily and effectively if he had no ordeal to pass through before the end of the year. While this may be doubted, the article contains some interesting suggestions and is well worth reading...
...popular interest in Anthropology has been abundantly shown by the large audiences that have gathered in Upper Boylston Hall on the evenings of his lectures. Last night proved no exception to the rule, and by half-past seven the hall was well filled. Dr. Ward had chosen, as the subject for his closing lecture, "The Benefits of Anthropological Study...
Yesterday afternoon in the lectureroom of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Dr. Wheeler concluded his series of lectures on the Athenian Acropolis. The subject of the last lecture was the Erechtheum...
...worked from separate blocks of marble, which were afterwards fastened upon the frieze. This frieze was of blue-black Elusinian marble, and must have thrown the sculptures into remarkable relief. Very few of the figures of the frieze have been preserved; not enough to enable us to determine the subject of the sculptor, so Dr. Wheeler did not discuss them...
When the committee, appointed last year by the faculty, to consider the subject of college athletics, made its report, it was found that over two hundred of the men who had been examined by Dr. Sargent, had a physical development of over 675. That is higher than the best developed man in 1880, when the Hemenway gymnasium was opened. As this year is the tenth since the opening of the gymnasium, Dr. Sargent is preparing a list of all the men whose development is above 675, to show the work accomplished during the last decade. Already there...