Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, on "The OEdipus Tyrannus;" May 4, Prof. Goodwin, on "Schlieman at Troy and Mycenae," a lecture similar to the one delivered last year; May 11, Prof. Norton, on "The Assos Expedition" May 18, Prof. Agassiz, on "The Buried Cities of Yucatan." It is not yet definitely settled whether Prof. Agassiz will lecture or not. Tickets for the course will be $1.00; single admissions 35 cents; to be obtained of members of either club or at Sever...
...story is told in the Harvard Lyceum (1810) of a debate on the question whether an "intemperate use of tobacco or of ardent liquors were the more pernicious?" After a long and acrimonious dispute, the votary of Bacchus gained the victory by adducing the testimony of Scripture in support of his assertions : "Are we not told," said he, "that 'it is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth a man, but that which cometh out of his mouth, this defileth...
...arranged with Sardou, the Comedie will exact the payment of that sum. In any case, Sarah's return to Paris will be a great event. It will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice, and whether, as the foreign critics say, she has become Americanized in her style of acting, or her London marriage with M. Damala, a Greek, has made her more classic...
...this respect. The main points in his argument are these : "Harvard College is really more than a college; it is a college plus a body of preparatory schools. Harvard has the good fortune to be fed by sources which are quick to respond to any advance in her requirements, whether in methods or in quantity." Thus she is secured to a large extent in her supply of students, and is therefore enabled to steadily raise her demands and receives none but the most thoroughly-prepared candidates. The average age of students at graduation is steadily growing higher. The class...
Wesleyan Athletic Association is to have a new one-fifth mile track around the foot-ball ground. It is not yet decided whether to enter the inter-collegiate contests at the Polo grounds, New York...