Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...
...aggregate 5.026,472 volumes; and the whole list of 5,338 libraries aggregates 20,622,076 volumes, or one volume to every three persons in the country. In round numbers, the United States has one library to every ten thousand of population, though in many states the proportion is far greater. New Hampshire, for example, has a library to every 2,700 persons. The neighboring states of Massachusetts and Connecticut furnish a library to every 3,134 and 3,479 persons respectively. California, Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan stand well up on the list. The Southern States, as might be expected...
...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...
...veins and dikes. The field work will include a study of the sea-coast at several points between Cape Ann and Cohasset, and at certain inland areas selected to show the nature and distribution of drift deposits and other phenomena. The laboratory work will be arranged to illustrate as far as possible the problems encountered in the field during the session of the school...
...does not seem very bad to keep away from the rowing machines till after the semi-annual examinations, and when an old hand takes the oars then he does not feel himself very far behind the others. But the next June he loses the race and then "can't see why Yale should have got ahead...