Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...use your columns to call the attention of music-lovers among the students to an important lecture to be given this afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room at 4.30 o'clock by Mr. Surette of Columbia University? The lecture is to be given upon one of the greatest of Beethoven's compositions,--the string quartet in F major, op. 59, No. 1, and is meant to be a preparation for an intelligent hearing of this same wonderful work, which is to be performed by the Kneisel Quartet at the last Chamber Concert next Monday evening. Suggestive comments will be made...
...international team, but the men will not be chosen until a preliminary test tournament has been held. The dates, April 14 and 15, which were selected by the American colleges, have proved satisfactory, and applications have already been made to the City of London Chess Club, for the use of its rooms during the two days of the contest...
...Treasurer's statement shows that the general investments of the University earned a net income of 4.77 per cent, during the past year. The total amount of gifts for capital account was $633,988.55. The gifts for immediate use, principal and interest, amounted to $875,575,21, making the total gifts for the year $1,509,563,76. The income from investments amounted to $718,268.57 and from students' fees and room rents $823,235.02. These figures with $31,035.91 from sundry accounts and the gifts for immediate use mentioned above made the income for the year, exclusive of gifts...
...walk at the exhibitions in the first floor corridor, and after a brief review of the plant families belonging to the department of cryptogamic botany exhibited there, he will proceed to the private collections on the top floor and will describe the methods of arranging collections for the use of specialists. Continuing through the botanical laboratories, under the direction of Professor R. Thaxter, the party will be shown methods of cultivating bacteria and fungi...
...business it is to teach him some game and see that he plays it. He is not led away to be stuffed with botany, geology, astronomy or metaphysics, but a cricket bat, a tennis racket, a football, an car, is put into his hands and he is taught to use it. And, then, when he comes to the university he has formed a habit and continues to follow his bent. The French boy studies or plays marbles in the streets; the German boy promenades the streets in droves, although now less than he used to do; but the English...