Word: islands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rhode Island Harvard Club dined at Narragansett Hotel Wednesday evening, Hon. C. B. Farnsworth in the chair, in the absence of President Brinley, of Newport. Pleasant addresses were made by President Eliot, President Robinson of Brown, Dr. Parsons, Rev. Dr. Stockbridge and Amos Perry, Esq. The company separated at a late hour. A poem was read from Rev. Dr. Charles T. Brooks of Newport...
...singular appearance, which curiosity led him to examine closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light may be the original deed for the land on which the college was first built. The document will be placed in the hands of the Rhode Island Historical Society for thorough examination...
...more, instead of to Yale, which is to be preserved by being kept poor. The question of the co-education of the sexes is attracting a good deal of attention just now. Old Columbia has been shaken to her foundations, and Dr. Dix has been almost driven from the island for opposing the higher education of women. I want to place it on record now and here that the Yale Alumni have no objection to the co-education of the sexes, and if there are any women who wish to join us the treasurer will gladly take their fees...
SCENE 3.THE PIRATE'S HOME - IN HIS OWN RIGHT LITTLE, TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND...
...Country Club announces that "gentlemen" riders who wish to take part in the races to be run at Mystic Park next May must be members of the American Coney Island or Maryland Jockey Clubs or some recognized hunt club, or else "undergraduates of the universities or colleges...