Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Golf Club is accordingly without links for the coming season. The secretary of the club is still actively looking for land, and hopes to have new grounds ready by next fall...
...studied, thickness measured, and the characteristic fossils collected. Training will be given in mapping and in collecting rocks and fossils. The Appalachian structure which is here seen affords additional problems for interpretation and more exact practice in mapping. There will be opportunity for study of a variety of land forms and glacial phenomena, and the closing days of the stay in Central New York will be devoted to a study of the drainage features connected with the departure of the ice sheet...
...Dutch inhabitants, however, refused to discontinue their policy of land grabbing. More trouble with the natives ensued, and a commission was sent from England to investigate. The trouble was staved off for a time, and in 1883 Kruger even obtained some concessions from the home government. It was in 1885, when gold was discovered in the Transvaal, that serious trouble began. The Uitlanders at this time numbered 150,000; there were less than half that number of Boers. The foreign element possessed all the mining and much of the property interests, and were taxed most unreasonably by the officials...
...establishment of a school of forestry was accepted from Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot and their sons Gifford Pinchot '89 and Amos Pinchot '97. To provide for a practical summer school the Pinchot family has given to the university the use of a large tract of forest land near Milford, Pike County, Pa., where a library will be established for the use of the school. Instruction will probably begin at Milford by August 1 and at New Haven with the opening of the academic year next fall. Henry S. Graves '92, now superintendent of working plans in the division...
...study of "Azara" are convinced of its great originality, its striking harmonies and melodies, masterly orchestration, dramatic power and picturesque scenic features. "Azara" marks a new epoch in American music, and it will be a shame if this opera is not first brought out on the stage in the land that produced it. One would think that Americans would show some pride in having "Azara" performed first in America, and would thus encourage the development of a native school of composers instead of forcing the composer to seek recognition abroad. In my opinion the ballet music recently performed is only...