Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pity that greater care was not taken in laying the plank walks which in every other way are so satisfactory. The walks from Hollis to the eastern corner of Holworthy, and diagonally across the Delta, sway in some places with every step and bring the heavy or rapid step to a sudden stoppage by the noise which the boards make...
...funeral of Edward Fox Fessenden will occur this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at his home in Portland, Me. A train leaves the Eastern depot at 9 o'clock this morning for Portland...
...graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least equal the eastern in its opportunities for learning? We hear almost daily of bequests for new colleges among us. Our people would almost seem to believe that our universities had reached their greatest height and the only thing left to do was to scatter them around more profusely. But no; in distribution of knowledge...
...highly probable that a professional nine will be started in New Haven and join the Eastern League...
During the year "great efforts were made," says the Advocate, "to arrange a base-ball tournament between all the eastern colleges; such a tournament to be held every year at Worcester, and to have a silver ball as the prize for that college which should beat the most games." "The colleges which have proved true to their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament...