Word: making
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...territory upon which agriculture is in some years profitable, in others, not. Washington Oregon, and the northern part of California are excluded from this rough outline. The total area is about 1.300,000 square miles, or 40 per cent. of the United States. The question is how to make this region profitable for agriculture...
...University of Pennsylvania, had been approached by a prominent member of the Harvard nine and had been offered inducements to come to Harvard. In reply to your question concerning the article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else, Yours very truly, PHILIP B, LINN, Capt...
...DEAR FRIEND DEANE:- I am in receipt of your letter of the 12. I shall be only too happy to make a statement in regard to the conditins under which you and the rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers...
...missionary work among colored people at Talledga, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis, 67 C. H., or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...endeavour to combine the beauties of all literature in one produced heterogeneousness in form and matter. It was a mistake to transplant the poetic life of the middle ages into the present, and instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...