Word: districts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spent in introductory work and in short daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' session will be divided between the Connecticut Valley, the Hoosac Valley and vicinity, in northwestern Massachusetts, and the foothills of the Catskill mountains in eastern New York. Some central, characteristic point in each district, easily accessible by railroad, will be taken for headquarters and short excursions made from it. The plan of the school, so far as it can now be stated, is as follows...
...Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this as the only means of getting back their country from the Whites...
...CRIMSON is in receipt of a work on the "Source of the Mississippi," which might prove a source of great delight to members of History 18. Describing exactly what corner of what hill in what remote district a small stream takes its rise, and illustrating with full-page maps the course of said steam, Itasca Lake, and adjoining swamps and pasture-lands, this little work will serve as a powerful reminder of certain history courses in college. Being polemical as well as minute in detail, it offers additional charms. It appears that Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., sent an exploring...
...following gentlemen have consented to serve as judges Ex. Gov. Henry M. Hoyt, Penn.; Hon. Geo. H. Ely, Ohio; Prof. Van Buren Deuston, N. Y.; Robt. P. Porter, District of Columbia; A. M. Garlard, Illinois. If any further information is desired, please address...
...Yale Law school is in the building in which are held the Common Pleas Court, the Superior, Criminal, and Civil Courts, and the Supreme Court, and within a stone's throw are the United States district and Circuit Courts; to all these court-rooms the law students are admitted with members of the bar, and have rare opportunities to see practical application of the principles which they find in their books. The Law School library is said to be the best in the country, containing all the English and American reports...