Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past and present, and at this time particularly, perhaps, to those whose class day is so near at hand, and who wish to keep beside them a pleasant reminder of their college years. The view is from the marshes on the Brighton side of the Charles looking almost eastward. In the foreground at a bend of the river lies an old dismantled boat shaded with marsh grass, and beyond, removed by two bends of the river, a single masted sail boat. Trees cover the rise between the river and the highlands, and over all at the right of the centre...
...course will be slightly altered this year. The flag at the start has been shifted eastward fifteen feet. This will give the west crew deeper water than it has formerly had. For two miles the course is unchanged, but after the two-mile flag the course bends west, then strikes straight for the finish. The finish flag will be nearer the Groton shore than usual to avoid the docks used in building the new railroad bridge which will cross the river here...
...knowledge of the New London course at second hand, since everybody who knows the course is aware that there is room for the North Atlantic Squadron on the last two miles. The difficulty about the unequal velocity of the tide could be avoided by moving the course eastward. The fact that Harvard's freshmen crew of '89 obtained a very lame victory, in fact no victory at all, over Yale's superior crew did not seem to weigh very heavily on the conscience of the Harvard men when they refused '90's challenge. 'Yet they cannot throw Columbia over because...
...your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration. . . . . . "The President's house was in great danger the wind was strong at the west the latter part of the time, and in short if Stoughton had gone all the houses in town to the Eastward of the College would have gone. I think I never saw so great a strife of elements before, it is supposed the Fire began in the Beam under the hearth of the Library, the Gov'r. and a great number of the Court assisted in extinguishing the Fire, it being vacation...
...Confederate armies under Gen. Jackson and Gen. Longstreet, until the army of the Potomac, then operating about Richmond, could meet Lee's army. Gen. Gordon began his lecture by describing the strategic movement of "Stonewall" Jackson from his position on the south bank of the Rappahannock to northward and eastward to Manassas Junction, thereby cutting off Pope's communications from his base of supplies. This took place on the 25th and 26th of August, and was a movement of wonderful brilliancy and rapidity. General Gordon spoke here in the highest terms of Gen. Jackson, as standing pre-eminent...