Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prettiest places of summer resort within easy distance of the Quaker City. Its topography is picturesque. But one of the distinguishing features of Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded by the late Joseph W. Taylor, M. D., a prominent member of the Society of Friends, of Burlington...
...Historical Society. At the former of these meetings, Mr. Winsor spoke on the subject of the discovery and naming of America. He described the exploration of each portion of the coast-line of the two contemns, discussed the claims of Vespucci to being the first discoverer of the main land, and told how the name of the Italian was gradually adopted as the designation of the New World. The lecture was illustrated by facsimiles of original manuscripts and maps from the Harvard library collection. At the second meeting, the subject was the landing and settlement of the Pilgrims at Plymouth...
...read by starlight and never even required a light in the greatest darkness. Now it happened that a party of wise men were passing through the country where the man with the powerful eyes lived. They heard of his great power, for his fame was spread through all the land, and searched him out and persuaded him to join them in their travels. They came to a country where there was no sun, and he was their guide; they descended into the deep dungeons of old castles, and he read the inscriptions on the walls, requiring no light...
...spring of 1880 a movement was started by the junior class at Yale, which led to the appointment of the "Advisory Committee on Athletics," composed of four graduates. During the following year $5,000 were collected, and twenty-nine acres of land purchased by this committee. In 1882 the committee was merged into "The Yale Field Corporation," which was formed to manage the athletic grounds in question. On the 1st of June, 1884, the field purchased was thrown open. During the fall it was used for football and lacrosse. The field lies on the south side of Derby Avenue...
...speaker grew eloquent as he discussed the unhappy condition of Ireland. The trouble there is not in a bad land system, but in the absence of every industry except. agriculture. She, too, had manufactures once, but England strangled them, when the potato famine came, the effects were terrible. The population had nothing to which they could turn their hands, starvation was the result. The absence of alternative occupation is the true cause of the poverty of Ireland. A country which is without some alternative occupations cannot create them in the face of open competition. Protection, she must have. The lecture...