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...oldest tradition of the East is hospitality, the next oldest cour- tesy. Ignoring all ill-mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings over the immigration dispute, the Imperial household of Japan restored the balance of Nippo-American amenities by presenting the American colony of Toyko, rent free, with a valuable tract of land, as a site for an American School...
...mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings...
...college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country at that time nor for a long while afterward, and that Harvard College stands out as a pioneer in the matter of cis-Atlantic transit-observation is due to John Winthrop, who, at the time referred to, was Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. In giving an account of this experience, Josiah Quincy, in his history of Harvard College, characterizes this professor as "one of its brightest ornaments." - [Advertiser...
...Cis-Atlantic contemporaries were less interesting even than ordinary this week, and we picked up the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal, to see what they were doing on the other side. No wonder that a fine eight can be made, when the Journal publishes a list of thirty-four eights in practice, belonging to the different colleges which compose the University of Cambridge...