Word: topic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last dinner of the Harvard Engineering Society the topic of an organization of alumni engaged in engineering was broached and we now learn that its formation is practically assured. Surely there can be nothing but advantage to be gained from an association of this sort. Its close affiliation with the Engineering Society will bring the men leaving College to engage in engineering work into closer touch with the graduates who have preceded them, and if the organization be properly conducted the novice will feel that he can look for advice to older men who have begun where he is beginning...
...Henderson will deliver the fifth of his series of lectures on the French Revolution today at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The special topic has been changed from "The Mountain and the Gironde," to "The Trial and Execution of Louis...
...treatment of this subject competitors are expected to base their essays on original work, done preferably in their home towns. The topic should be considered to include elevated, underground; and street railways, but does not include the urban service of steam railways. Essays submitted by contestants must not exceed 10,000 words in length, and must be mailed or delivered to an express company not later than March 15, 1908, addressed to the "Chairman of the Committee of Judges, Care of C. R. Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, North American Building, Philadelphia," and marked for the "William...
...Henderson '83 will deliver the third of his series of eight lectures on "The French Revolution" in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4.50 o'clock. The special topic today will be "The Flight to Varennes" and will be illustrated by about 80 stereopticon slides, including views of the principal buildings of Paris and political caricatures. The lecture will deal with the different events leading up to the flight, with special reference to Mirabeau and the clergy, the flight itself in brief, the capture of the king and queen, and their return to Paris...
...Henderson '83 will deliver the second of a series of eight lectures on "The French Revolution" this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall instead of the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Museum as heretofore announced. The special topic today will be "The 5th and 6th of October in Versailles" and will be illustrated, as the previous lecture, by about 50 stereopticon slides...