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Word: landed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional teaching, with no power for the formation of character, that will not even aim at it, that must prevent the possibility of giving honestly a common diploma to those who graduate, and that will keep up forever the hungry cry for money from every college in the land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. HOPKINS ON COLLEGE EDUCATION. | 1/24/1884 | See Source »

...whole we are inclined to think that any thoughtlessness which leads a man into the practice of whittling everything in his neighborhood is open to considerable objection; and so we would recommend that this practice be given up here and allowed to join its companions in the land of tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1884 | See Source »

...England college with a few men from the other states. Now it is very different; and as the means of travelling are being made easier, Harvard is yearly extending its influence over the whole country and drawing men here from every portion of the entire land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1884 | See Source »

...whole yard now includes about twenty four acres. The first grant was made by the old town and consisted of four and a quarter acres situated where Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton now stand. From tine to time, down to 1883, when the last purchase was made, various lots of land were added as the requirements and needs of the college in creased. In the earliest times the old town palisades, to keep away the Indians, ran not far from the western line of the present grounds. At the Harvard Square corner was an eminence, which must have been leveled, known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE YARD. | 1/10/1884 | See Source »

Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $200,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1884 | See Source »

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