Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been engaged by Dr. Hitchcock, to come to Cornell in order to examine, free of charge, the eyes of all students of the college. The statistics about near-sightedness will be interesting and valuable as an addition to those already collected in other educational institutions abroad and in America...
...probable that an Irish lacrosse team will visit America during the summer...
...They think that by snubbing some of their "Brethren," they will set before the rest of the world a fair pattern of the kindliness and brotherly love preached by Christ. This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical...
...archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well as those of the Boston Society of Natural History, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, were given to the Peabody Museum. A large and valuable collection has also been formed from explorations in different parts of America. The Museum is probably the most important in the country for the study of American Archaeology. The present building was begun in 1876, and completed in October...
...proverbs as "Soapine did it" - might necessitate even the closing of the college. In view of these facts we sincerely hope that the conductors and drivers of the Cambridge tramways will take serious thought before they strike and interrupt the progress of the "oldest, largest and grandest university in America...