Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this evening in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory Professor I. N. Hollis will give the lecture, postponed from last week, on "Modern War Ships." The lecture, which is given under the auspices of the Engineering Society, will be open to the public...
After sketching President Sparks's term of office which began in 1849 and noting his opposition to the elective system, President Eliot concluded by contrasting the quiet state of the University during the fifties with the period of distraction and turmoil which followed during the Civil War. He referred...
...magnificent services of the six hundred or more Harvard men who took part in the war and to whose memory Memorial Hall was erected; and he expressed the wish that the present generation of Harvard men might be as ready as they to do their part in the defense of the Republic...
Harvard Engineering Society. Modern War Ships. (Illustrated by the stereopticon). Professor Hollis. Lecture Room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Tonight the first lecture on Harvard's history will be held under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society. Certainly no better man could have been chosen to tell the history of the University during the decade just preceding the Civil War than President Eliot. In 1850 President Eliot was a sophomore in the College, and his father held the position of Treasurer to the University. The year after leaving College he was appointed tutor in mathematics, and in 1858 became an assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. From this it will be seen that President Eliot was closely connected...