Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glacial sand plains about Boston were deposited beneath the level of the sea, at a time of submergence of the land...
Christmas Day every man will spend as he likes. Christmas night the clubs will leave at eight o'clock, arriving at Cleve land at seven the next morning. They will give a concert on Monday evening, after which there will be a dinner at the Union Club. Tuesday there will probably be a reception and the clubs will leave at 8.55 for Chicago, arriving there at 7.35 Wednesday morning. From Chicago they go to Milwaukee where they will be given a reception by Mrs. Abbott. There will be a concert in the evening, and Thursday morning they will return...
...LAND OF THE LINGERING SNOW. - Men who wish to send home for Christmas a gift suggestive of Harvard surroundings should go to the CO-OPERATIVE and examine the 3d edition of Secretary Bolles's little book. It gives charming pictures of the country near Cambridge, and is timed expressely for the Winter season...
Hampton Institute is situated on a point of land in the Chesyeake Bay. It was there that the cargoes of slaves were landed and the place where the Indian was first baptized. General Armstrong who was in command of some negro troops at his place during the war, afterwards thought what a grand work could be done with the colored race at that place. A few years later the Institute was founded and Mr. Armstrong was at its head...
...University of Pennsylvania has been given a piece of land 529 ft. long and 443 ft. wide, by the trustees, to be used as an athletic field. The grounds are conveniently situated near the college buildings and the new gymnasium which is to be built next summer will be only a short distance off. As it will take a large amount of grading to put the field in a suitable condition, work has already been begun on it. A third of a mile running track will be laid out, inside of which will be two football fields and two base...