Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter meetings would prove interesting to a large number of men, to whom it would be an acceptable memento of this feature of college life. We find the meeting-room hung with trophies, and photographs of noted athletes, all of which represent out-door events, and victories on land and water. Our winter meetings in the gymnasium are popular and profitable, and often represent a deal of athletic practice and training, but we fail to find any pictorial or tablet records of them, except in one or two cases. All the events peculiar to in-door athletics, which have been...
...reported that Mr. Gladstone has determined to resign, on account of the action of the House of Lords concerning an investigation of the land act operations...
England is still desirous of further investigation into the working of the land...
...MELVILLE.JUNIOR THEMES.Theme IV. will be due March 14. For Section II. (Allen to Lane) the subjects are : 1. The present state of the Irish land question. 2. Froude's Mary Stuart compared with Lingard's. 3. The Skylark in English Literature. 4. A statement of the aims and principles of the so-called "AEsthetes" as represented by Mr. Oscar Wilde...
...Phillistine press, I feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass in a day's ride, - and I promise you there the respect due a stranger to our shores, to your attainments, your industry, and your large, generous and tranquil nature. Or should you decide to return here, and not bear further abuse, come to my housetop and abide...