Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wednesday morning the members of the university, past and present, formed at the university and marched to the Heiliggeistkirche to hear the oration, the central literary feature of the jubilee, pronounced by Dr. Kuno Fisher. There is no more noted man in Heidelberg to-day than Kuno Fisher, and none whose works are better known in the United States. American students at Heidelberg are always partial to him, both because of his celebrity and because of his exceptionally clear and distinct pronunciation of his mother tongue. But still he is not to be recommended to the young beginner in German...
...nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified to limit allowable absences than was formerly any central authority, however competent. Then, too, in case of an overstepping of this limit, he will best know how to enforce the proper amount of attendance by depriving the offender of the privileges of the course...
...following has been determined upon as the route of the procession on Anniversary Day: Forming in front of the gymnasium, it will march to Quincy St., thence to Harvard, to Prospect, to Central Square, then up Main Street to the yard; round the yard, up Brattle Street to Craigie, to Concord Avenue and the common; thence across North Avenue to Holmes Field...
...race which must always be rowed on the Thursday or Friday following the last Wednesday in June, each college choosing the day on alternate years. The race must be rowed on the ebb tide and within two hours of high water. The course must be marked by a central line of buoys situated at each half mile point and either boat may be disqualified, if, at any point during the race it approach to within ten feet, or be distant more than a hundred feet from the central line. This is a most important rule, providing, as it does, that...
...white, cylindrical building on Magazine St., south from Central Square, has doubtless attracted everyone's attention. This light-house-looking structure is the Cambridge Powder Magazine, and following are a few facts concerning its history...