Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time is not far distant when it shall be as much among the curiosities of history that one sex should ever have been debarred from the educational privileges accorded to the other, as it will be that the curse of slavery should have continued to darken the escutcheon of our Republic for a century after its foundation." - [President Barnard...
...they could also be encouraged to use the library more by having books reserved for them in their different courses. We mention these only as examples of reform which may be looked for. But, as for co-education to any further extent than this, the day seems very far distant when it will be realized at Harvard...
Boating men at Yale are enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. He weighs about a hundred pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...
Pensacola reports nineteen new cases of yellow fever, of which six are at Nixs on the Perdido, sixteen miles distant, with but one death...
...Distant beacons to shine through the years...