Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Canadian Club on Saturday evening, Mr. B. G. Gordon, the leader of the Harvard Honduras expedition, lectured on the "Ancient Cities of Central America." Mr. Gordon described his trip to Honduras and his visit to the old cities of the interior, whose remarkable ruins give some idea of the civilization which flourished there ages before the coming of Europeans to America. These cities, once so magnificent, are now overgrown by forests, inhabited only by wild animals, and many of them seldom visited by man. Mr. Gordon also told several anecdotes illustrative of the character and customs...
...table which is appended, the United States is divided into four rough sections which represent the natural divisions of the country. The Northeastern section includes New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the Southern section, those states south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio river; the Central section is bounded by the Ohio river, Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi; and the Western section takes in all the states west of the Missippi...
...examination of the figures which give the representation of the Universities in these sections shows an encouraging fact. In each of these Harvard leads Yale by a substantial majority. In the Northeastern section Harvard has a majority of 862; in the Central section, 33; in the Southern, 10; in the Western, 77; and in the foreign section, 25. From these figures it can be safely said that Harvard today is the most cosmopolitan university in the country...
...Central Section...
...SPECIAL car will leave for Chicago via B. and A., and New York Central on Wednesday, twentieth inst., at 2 p. m. Fare, round trip, $35.00. All those wishing tickets can secure them at Leavitt and Peirce...