Word: distant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Brown Glee Club assisted at the Telephone exhibition, May 7. After an introductory lecture, the audience listened in breathless silence to "the bulldog on the bank," as he was transmitted via telephone by the club at an office about half a mile distant...
...spite, however, of all its drawbacks, the photographic art gives a deal of pleasure to man-kind. Not to speak of the character-study presented by every album, we can gratify ourselves with the sight of distant friends without the intervention of spirits; and in their "photos" they present themselves in a constant state of imperturbable good-nature and equanimity...
...fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts, no larger than a man's hand, and has increased till its shadow rests over the most remote parts of Asia." He built up Neophogen until now "she shines with glittering magnificence to the far distant Cumberland, and is the very goal of human perfection. Her little world of literature, the College Pen, makes her a familiar byword from the Canadian Lakes to the tumultuous Gulf of Mexico." "In a few more years our College, we trust, will cope with Bethany or the University of Virginia...
...propose that Harvard and Yale Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators...
...match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match is not very distant. Although we do not believe in keeping up a sport on account of an expected contest, we trust that an intercollegiate contest will be brought about for another reason, - on account of the interest the colleges take in the sport...