Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Southward the course of Harvard takes its way. The appearance of the Business School on the south bank of the river has been followed by the purchase by the University of all land between the Learz Anderson and the Western Avenue bridges not already occupied by College buildings. This tract of undeveloped property is a map of what Harvard will be. Those responsible for the new chapel should consider carefully before succumbing to a tradition which thinks of Harvard only in terms of the Harvard Yard without regard to larger appropriateness...
...effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility of a close analysis of faculty behaviour...
...being up 22 hours a day, the party continued on their way without a stop for 160 miles up the Porcupine. Although they were well within the Arctic circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees for 22 hours out of the 24. After a 40-mile trip over land, the party came to the end of their journey. The prospector, whom they were seeking, told them the details of the discovery he had made and proceeded to take them to the spot where he had found the relic imbedded in the earth...
Although the Harkness name has been graven most deeply and often at Yale, it is spread generously among institutions throughout the land. Recently the Albany, N. Y., Medical College received $250,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness. Not long ago he gave $1,000,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University...
While wireless companies prepared to compete with land lines, the chief U. S. telegraph company made ready for a record-breaking year. Announced by Western Union Telegraph Co., last week, was an appropriation of $29,000,000 for improvements, replacements, new construction...