Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time of the election which will follow the heated canvass of this fall, many students will seriously regret their inability to cast a vote for what they consider the best cause. Those whose distant homes do not permit them to vote there may have often conjectured as to the nature of the restrictions on their voting here. Upon inquiry we were informed by the city clerk of Cambridge that a decision had been given by the Supreme Court that persons residing in Campridge for purposes of education and dependent for support upon parents or friends in another district...
...addition to the schools that I have mentioned. there is a school of oriental languages. This school is intended to make interpreters, and to instruct merchants or functionaries who are called to distant destinations. Courses are given in the following languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, the languages of Malay and Java, Armenian, modern Greek, Hindostani, Chinese, Japanese, and the language of Annam...
...students using the grounds when the regular team did not want them, but such recreation was uncertain and infrequent. Even at that time there was a cry for more room. In the fall the freshman eleven needed another field and had to resort part of the time to a distant field kindly loaned by an interested gentleman. In the spring time the lacrosse twelve. badly cramped in their narrow quarters, were also clamoring for more room that their increasing numbers might be accommodated. As was said before there was scarcely a place where any scrub game could be played...
...proposed American Academy has called forth a communication, which we print in another column. We think our correspondent takes too serious a view of the matter. No one proposes at present to establish an academy as far as we know, and we think the time is yet far distant when such an academy would be advisable. In fact if there were such an academy, it is our opinion that it should be an academy of the English speaking peoples, and that America should unite with England in its formation. As the purpose of such an academy is to preserve...
...exhibited objects, will make an especially imposing impression. But the strong point of this institution lies in the poculiar arrangement of the collection for the public, and in the strict separation of the large material for scientific investigations. By the constant development of science, by the improved accessibility of distant continents and islands, by the investigations of the depths of the ocean, collections of natural history will be enlarged almost to infinity; and it will be harder and harder to place them in our museums, and to preserve them. Everywhere buildings begin to be insufficient; and if we were...