Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longfellow then introduced Prof. Thayer, of the law school, who spoke on the Dawes bill. This bill gives the Indian the right to hold land and also the right of citizenship. The president is authorized to have the reservation surveyed and a part allotted to each member of the tribe. The Indian may be compelled to accept the land and cannot part with it for twenty-five years. The remaining land is bought by the government and sold to out-siders and money is placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other...
WORCESTER, Jan. 2, 1888. There is a good prospect of the establishment of a new college for women in Worcester with a foundation of at least $1,000,000. Mayor Winslow in his inaugural address to-day, advocated the purchase by the city of land for a public park on Main street, opposite Clark University, at a cost of $34,000, accompanying the recommendation with these remarks: "I can only say now that the prospect is bright for a very large increase of our educational facilities, and that, too, in behalf of a sex which has not always been favored...
...endowment of a college for women, to be located somewhere in Massachusetts. Dr. Fay's conditions were that the college should be a memorial of his wife, and should bear her name, and that the city or town where the college should be located should furnish land and buildings to the value of $400,000. The Unitarian Association put the matter in the hands of a committee of which Rev. James De Normandie and Rev. E. E. Hale of Boston were members. This committee has made investigations in several cities and towns, and has received offers of and in several...
...feature in the Glee Club Pierian concerts in coming years, and many lovers of true music would be glad to see it substituted for the Banjo Club. The activity which the students of Cambridge display in musical matters, we believe is hardly equaled in any other college of the land...
...provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted upon the organization of the Territory of Michigan in 1804-05, and took a practical form in the reservation by act of Congress of a township of land for the support of a university. Its first foundations, therefore, were national. No steps were taken by the government towards university organization until the year 1817, when an act was passed establishing the "University of Michigan," and providing for thirteen professorships, including one for the historical sciences, or "diegetica," as they...