Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...early College records as containing "five chambers, 18 studies, a kitchen, cellar, and 3 garrets." The position of the foundation wall to the west of Wadsworth House makes the identification of the building with the Goffe house the more probable. As the work of excavation progresses to the eastward, it is likely that the foundations of the original College building will be found. The discovery is particularly interesting because the position of these houses has never been known with precision...
...Andover Theological Seminary have purchased 200,000 square feet of land from the Charles Eliot Norton estate in Cambridge and expect to erect upon this tract at least one large building for the use of the seminary. The land adjoins the property of the Harvard Divinity School and extends eastward toward Francis avenue, which will be extended to afford ready access to the new buildings of the seminary. Architects have already been employed to draw plans for one large hall, and it is expected that work on this building will proceed without delay. The land secured by the trustees...
...absence from the University by the Corporation until February 1, to enable him to make a study of some of the conditions of the South. He will go first to Galveston and Houston, Texas, and make first-hand investigations into the governments by commission there; and will then work eastward to Louisiana and though the strip of rural country running through southern Mississippi, Alabama, and eastern North Carolina, and South Caroline. His purpose is to see the rural South away from the railroads and other means of communication with the outside world...
...Farabee will leave Boston early in June. His party, limited to ten men, will meet in Edinburgh on July 8. Sailing from Scotland, they will join Professor Jaggar in Reykjavik on July 16. Together the two parties will cross to the north of Iceland and thence proceed eastward along the coast, visiting the important geysers, glaciers and volcanoes...
...features of the region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward...