Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commission which has been taking testimony in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, relative to the value of Cornell University lands, in the suit to break the will of Jennie McCraw-Fiske, shows that the university has a good deal of land out there, though the cash value of the timber on it is not tremendous...
...conform to so agreeable a feature of our fundamental law. The calls of the university, from time to time, relative to many matters conducive to the comfort and convenience of its officers and resident students, have ever been most cheerfully met by our municipality; seventy-one acres of valuable land in our very midst (not taxable, of course), yet we regard the great university, so its influence, as reflecting the highest honor upon our city...
...pupils was an Indian named Samson Occum, who afterwards because an effective preacher. He was Wheelock's prize scholar. Occum was a success, and Wheelock felt encoured, until in 1761 it has eleven pupils. More money was wanted and obtained, as well as various gifts, including two acres of land and a bell weighing eighty pounds for the use of the school, from a gentleman in London. The Indian, Occum, went to England and created a sensation. He preached so effectually that the Earl of Dartmouth L50. About L10,000 was raised...
...principal streets of the two cities and simply connecting them by one line. As to the danger to real estate, a road throwing Mr. Auburn and Green streets to main street and thence over the bridge to Boston would have no serious effect upon the value of the land. And thus would be avoided that discomfort which is incurred from running a road through the crowded streets of a city. We look at the proposed road from an economical standpoint and in it we recognize not only the source of great convenience and saving of time but also the future...
...also narrative and general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn historical topics suggested by recent events such as the present invasion of Egypt, the Tonquin War, or in another field historical questions suggested by the present political condition of Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany. It has been said that every man is most ignorant of the period in history immediately preceding that in which he lives. It would be the purpose of this course to train the student in a proper method of historical estimates of recent...