Word: east
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first hare and hound run, in which 50 men entered, took place yesterday. The course ran from the Carey building to North Cambridge and Somerville, turned at Tufts College, and came back to the Carey Building by way of East Cambridge. The hounds beat the hares by two minutes, covering the distance in 471/2 minutes...
...whole matter of the sources from which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka," which contains 550 stories of the Buddha's former births. The sources of the first six books of La Fontaine may be traced to Aesop and to Pheidros; from seven to eleven the books were derived in their sources from the oriental, that is, the Jataka and Bidpai literature...
...extra sidings, which when finished will, together with the main track and the siding south of the station, make room for about 70 cars and 7 engines. The new sidings are being built at the curve west of the Brokaw Field and are to be three in number, two east and one west of the main track. About 80 laborers are at work, and it is expected that the improvements will be completed by Friday night at the latest...
...Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian formations, then visiting their contact on top of the mountain, and thence going to the central shaft of the tunnel where the dumps illustrate many varieties of these rocks. In the afternoon, proceeding over the crest of the mountain to the station at the east portal of the tunnel, something will be seen of the topography of the area between the Connecticut and Hoosac Rivers...
...subject is the east end of the Parthenon including three columns on the front and three on the side; it is to be one tenth of the original size, and the first specimen of its kind...