Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the New York and New England land to Springfield is some twenty-five miles further than by the Boston & Albany, arrangements have been made to hold all local trains on the morning of the game and give special trains the right of way, thus making the time shorter than by the other road. No stops will be made between Boston and Springfield except for railway orders...
...note this fact with peculiar pleasure also because we feel sure that, the nation as a whole considered, the Graduate School will become more and more the guarantee of Harvard's reputation as the chief place of learning in the land. Local colleges are abundant and must diminish the number of men who will come a great distance for their college education. But that the Graduate School offers advantages not to be obtained else where is evidenced by the fact that the enrolment of the School has trebled within seven years and that last year out of two hundred...
...that of a migration of the dead, along a river or beyond a sea, usually to the East or West; for men of imaginative natures standing on the shore of the ocean could see in the brilliant clouds of sunset and dawn, the capes and headlands of a fair land beyond. These beliefs may well be seen in some ancient Irish literature and in Procopius's description of the spirits' voyage to Brittia...
...formal opening of the academic year this morning focuses attention for a moment on the numerical strength of the University. With the establishment of universities or at least of colleges in all parts of the country, it would seem that Harvard, situated in a remote corner of the land and distant from most of the great centres of population, must inevitably yield the students of distant states to their local institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western...
...Paul's Society have done substantial service to the University in making it possible for Harvard men to hear in Cambridge some of the ablest preachers in the land...