Word: landing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gave all they had or hoped for in this life that their country should be one, and should be ruled in the spirit of a broad and generous democracy. So high were the hopes of these men, so strong were their wishes, so firm their resolves, that our land should be the home of a free, united people, a field for the full development of the human race, that they thought no price too great to pay for that...
...much to give up home, health, even life, in order to carry out one's national ideal, and yet it is the plain, over-mastering duty of the citizen in a free land. It is much for the loser in such a fierce struggle as our civil war, to give up the ideal for which he has paid the last price, and to accept the outcome with a fine magnanimity as our brothers of the South have done. They have recognized that this whole country is theirs as well as ours...
...Harvard Golf Club has just taken an option of eighty four acres of land on the Trapels road, between Waverly and Waltham. The land, which is known as the Wellington Farm, runs on both sides of the main road and can be reached by the electric cars in about forty minutes from Harvard square. The ground is rolling in character, and the turf is of excellent quality...
Steps will be taken immediately by the club to raise the money necessary for the purchase of the land. When purchased, it will be placed in the hands of three trustees who will hold the title to the links, but will lease the land to the club, which will have the privilege of purchasing at any time. The managing trustee is Stoughton Bell '96, one of the founders of the Harvard Golf Club...
...looked very much in the future, but twenty gentlemen united to buy at an expense of about $550,000 this tract of land on the condition that Harvard University should have, of course, any portion of it which it desired. I think that a most ingenious and admirable way of helping an institution of learning...