Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following men are candidates for the University Nine: Hooper, '75, Kent, '75, Tyng, '76, Ernst, '76, Tower, '77, Leeds, '77, Latham, '77, McDowell, '77, Thatcher, '77, Thayer, '78. They have been running twice a week, and hope to get out on Jarvis Monday next...
...Determinative Mineralogy. Applicants are requested to send their names to Prof. J. P. Cooke, Cambridge, before June I, mentioning the part or parts of the subject which they intend to study. The instruction will be given in Boylston Hall, four hours in the day, five days in the week, from July 8 to August 19. The fee for every course is $ 25, including the use of apparatus (not breakage), payable in advance to the Bursar. The courses in Botany will include one on Phaenogamic Botany, given at the Botanical Museum by Assistant Professor Goodale; and one in Cryptogamic Botany, given...
...boats will be out this week, we give the time of high tide for the next two weeks, for the convenience of those...
...Debates are held once a week, - the debating-hall seating about 400. The subjects are as varied as possible, and constant efforts are made to prevent the debates becoming purely political. Social questions are not unfrequently discussed, whilst there are, occasionally, pure scientific or literary debates. There is no doubt, however that politics give rise to the most animated debates, - the house always being crowded when the principles of conservatism or liberalism are at stake. As to the 'style' of the debate, the House of Commons is closely followed. No one is allowed to name a speaker, - all are spoken...
During the latter half of the Sophomore year two hours a week are devoted to the study of the Constitution of the United States and of the Elements of Political Economy. These subjects are kept entirely distinct. The Constitution is first studied, and the recitations are practically lectures by the instructor upon the application and history of the various sections which come before the division. After the Constitution, or at least the text of it, has been mastered, it is laid aside; and the remainder of the year is devoted to the study of Political Economy...