Word: newport
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Plans are being prepared by a Newport architect for a new $100,000 war college building at Coasters' Harbor Island, for which an appropriation was made by Congress some time...
...between the Hopkinson and Cambridge Latin Schools. Hopkinson's best man is H. C. Robinson, who played well in general tournaments last year. R. Wrenn and E. Stevens of the Cambridge Latin are also likely to do well. The dark horse is Herrick of New York, who played at Newport last season...
...Peckham, '67, in the Newport Mercury of Feb. 28, writes entertainingly of this little-known University. It was founded over a hundred years ago by constitutional provision, and the site selected for it at Chapel Hill, N. C., was chosen peculiarly with a view to its healthful position-on the top of "a sandy hill in the middle of the State, where the rain water disappears almost instantaneously, and for miles away you look down upon pines that are health-giving." The climate is mild and balmy. Seldom is there any winter. "The buildings, like those of Northern colleges...
HARVARD ELECTRIC CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the Harvard Electric Club at its room on Friday at 7.30. Lieut. J. B. Cahoon, now with the Thomson Houston Electric Co., formerly at the Newport Torpedo Station, will tell some interesting news about the latest railway motors...
...Salem, Portsmouth, New Haven, Newport, and the other towns of New England, are in general neatly built, and commodiously situated on fine navigable rivers, with good harbors, but have nothing remarkable in them...