Word: link
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This Museum has been a link in a long chain of manifestations of friendliness between Germany and America. The German Emperor, the King of Saxony, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, German City Governments and a number of American friends of German culture have generously helped its cause...
Charles Eliot Norton is dead, and with his death the last link between the present age and that immortal coterie of men of letters--Longfellow and Lowell, Holmes and Emerson, Whittier and Hawthorne--is gone. He was of that same golden period of American literature which we shall not see renewed in the course of many years, the companion as well as the contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth...
There has recently been revived among influential alumni the project for the construction of a boulevard from the Charles River Road to Quincy square by way of De Wolf street, thus forming a connecting link between the Parkway and the University grounds. Such a scheme has been talked of for many years, but only assumed definite shape in 1902, when a committee of alumni was formed to consider the matter. Plans were drawn and approved by the Cambridge Board of Survey, but the City Government refused to consider the matter on the ground of expense. At present, the Cambridge Park...
...design, each consisting of two laboratory wings with sufficient land behind them to provide for further extension. The wings are connected in front by an amphitheatre, two stories in height, which provides a general meeting place for classes of about two hundred and fifty students. In the connecting link between the laboratory wings of each building is located the library devoted to that department...
...briefly discussed the two most prominent views of an underlying unity--the evolutionary and theological theories of Seneca and the Apostle Paul. He then considered the arguments against a belief in a race unity, and at the same time brought forward strong and convincing proofs of some connecting link between all human races...