Word: distant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...campus of the new Chicago University will cover four blocks, and will not be more than five minutes walk distant from Lake Michigan...
...which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...
...much lower standard of admission. These conditions which make it possible for the American student to leave long gaps in his education are eccentricities which no well balanced system of education would admit. The thought that this suggests is certainly novel and almost startling. Is the time not far distant when some university shall stand up and say that the only way to its professional schools is through the A. B. of a college of recognized standing? The remarks of President Eliot last Friday certainly seemed to indicate that he thinks something of this sort desirable; that the professional...
...General Physical and Structural Geology. It is to begin July 6th and close Aug. 7th. Daily lectures are to be given, supplemented by laboratory work. Afternoons are to be spent in excursions in the immediate neighborhood of Cambridge, and sometimes an entire day will be spent on a more distant trip. The second of the three courses consists of advanced field work and investigation. It will begin July 13th, at Utica, N. Y., and will close at some point on the Atlantic coast, August 22d. Utica, Catskill, N. Y., Meriden, Connecticut, and the Delaware Water Gap will be the different...
...pamphlet issued by the Canadian Club is a gratifying evidence of the members' loyalty to Harvard. In spite of the reputation of the college, life here inevitably becomes distorted in distant states and in Canada, and stories are circulated about Harvard's being "a place for rich men's sons only" a hot-bee of atheism, and other absurdities. The only means of refuting these distortions is by placing the facts before the public. This is what the members of the Canadian Club have done. They describe briefly the library, expenses, pecuniary aid, religious services, and the college...