Word: upon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...indoor track which was constructed last fall underneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has proved as great a success as was expected and at present there are over a hundred track team candidates training regularly upon it-a larger number than has ever before appeared until much later in the season. The Intercollegiate Relay Meet, to which more than sixty colleges and as many schools have been invited, will take place on Saturday, April 24. The preliminary arrangements have been completed, except the grouping of the colleges, universities and schools. There will be two races to determine the college...
President Eliot gave an address upon general pedagogy before the normal class in the College of Liberal Arts Monday afternoon. This was the first of a series of lectures to be given upon this subject before the students during the term...
...continuance of the opera as the attraction at the Castle Square Theatre for another week. The opera has called out great audiences and the principals, chorus and orchestra have, in their performances, fully justified the promises made by Directors Jaxon and Hirschfeld when the production was decided upon. The good musical work of the organization has been supplemented by magnificent stage settings, accurate and splendid costumes and accessories, and the first venture in the Wagnerian repertoire by the company has been made a notable event in every way. During the coming week the Elsas of the cast will be Fatmah...
Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., has founded the Ingersoll Lectureship at Harvard, which provides for one lecture a year upon the "Immortality of Man." The fund is arranged to be used on a plan similar to that of the Dudleian Lectureship. The first lecture on this foundation was recently delivered by Dr. Gordon of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, on "Immortality and the New Theodicy." Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish this in a small volume about the middle of February...
...faculty of the University of Pennsylvania have decided upon the following eligibility rule: "That all candidates for the crews shall pass a preliminary examination in all their branches of study about the middle of March...