Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That we form a new association, including only the colleges named - the title of the association to be decided hereafter...
YALE, PRINCETON AND HARVARD RESOLVE TO FORM...
...California donated $700,000 for the purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected by next September, when the building...
...professors of languages, mathematics, polite literature, chemistry and other subordinate subjects - subordinate to boating. They are far too sensible, far too proficient in the science of relative values, to expect a dinner given by the students in their honor to compare with this boating dinner. Expressed in a scholarly form, their conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge on learning that "Bob" Cook is to be given a dinner in fourteen courses will merely...
...great amount of literary work behind him. Did Sheridan leave more? All the essays, the poetry, the unfinished history, which I confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more so than when he implies that Maculay just missed being very great...