Word: central
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Packard, of Brown University, has gone on a six weeks' tour to Mexico and Central America for purposes of research in regard to matters connected with his department...
...colleges of New England have led the thought of all this great continent; their graduates have gone out into all parts, exerting a powerful influence. That you, the delegates from New England colleges should meet here at Harvard, which has so many advantages and which is so central in its position and influence, is indeed a good thing. You all respect bodily equipment and strength, and I, too, have rejoiced in my countrymen as I have seen them at foot-ball or rowing-noble, stalwart, finely built fellows. It is good that you do have this respect, for there...
...fact that he was the typical strong man of the college. I doubt whether I should have had the perseverance to wriggle my way through the examinations for admission had I not been constantly stimulated by the reflection that Bill Blaikie was (to my mind) the central fact of the university...
Almost any sunny day, writes a Vilhalnslown correspondent of the New York Evening Lost, one may see under these shades a venerable form who is recognized as the central figure in the annals of Williams-ex-President Mark Hopkins. It will be fifty years, in 1886, since he became president of the college, and, although the harden of years caused hun in 1872 to resign the presidency, he sold this the chains of Utiseland thecology and of motal and interlectual philosophy, and is a counselor of weight in an the allies of the college. Much of What is ulsoncelle...
...natural that the party spirit that reigned rampant at the Poughkeepsie institution should seek to manifest itself in some other way than by mere discussion, and by betting at long odds. A proposal was made by some maidenly member of the Vassar Central Republican Campaign Committee that, on the day before the election, polls should be opened, and a special election of their own should be held; a small election, one petite election pour un sou as it were, but still one that would give the college an opportunity to show the great outside world just where it stood...