Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notwithstanding the excitement of a political campaign, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew found time recently to deliver an address to the graduating class of the Syracuse Medical College. The speech was full of wholesome common sense and bristled with keen sallies of with and humor. The following is an extract of the address...
...Hale announced during the services in the chapel yesterday morning that he would conduct prayers for the last time on Tuesday morning. He will close on that occasion his long term of service which began eight years ago in October, when, as one of the clerical members of the Board of Overseers, he took charge of the chapel service for the month. Everybody remembers the great reluctance with which the resignation of Dr. Hale was accepted even after he had declared that it would be impossible for him to devote to the University in the future the time necessary...
Eighty-six young men were graduated at Columbia College yesterday. For the first time in the history of the college the degree of bachelor of arts was conferred upon a woman, Miss Alice Louise Pond, the twenty-year-old daughter of one of the editor of the Sun. The honorary degree of doctor of letters was conferred on Charles Eliot Norton...
There will be a rigid rule against holding meetings or planning work in the afternoon, and there will consequently be ample time for out-door exercise...
...continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida could not be explained by the "subsidence theory" of Darwin, but no other explanation could be given at that time. Professor Agassiz has arrived at a rational and satisfactory explanation of its distinctive peculiarities. Great stress is laid upon the various changes of the ocean currents, and on the importance of the transportion of pelagic food by currents in controlling the growth and distribution of corals. There is also a careful...