Word: newton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many injurious results that will arise from its use. How true and accurate these prophecies are, all who have ridden a bicycle for any length of time, who have experienced the exhilaration of whirling rapidly along in a manner which seems contrary to the laws of nature discovered by Newton, and who have felt their muscles grow firmer, their lungs stronger, and their nerves more steady by its use, can easily judge. In fact, most physicians who have raised the strongest objections to the bicycle are the very ones who have the least practical knowledge of the machine. In England...
...meeting of the trustees of Colby University at Waterville last night, Rev. Geo. D. B. Pepper, D. D., was unanimously elected president in place of Rev. Dr. J. H. Robins, who is obliged to resign on account of ill-health. Dr. Pepper is a graduate of Amherst, 1857, and Newton Theological Seminary...
...Newton Case, of Hartford, Ct., has offered to give $100,000 for the library for the Hartford Theological Seminary provided an equal amount is raised...
...Burr, '84, has been very sick at his home in Newton. He is about to take a trip south for his health...
...Eaton of St. Louis, Mo., preparing for Harvard at the West Newton English and Classical School, was drowned Saturday at Waltham while skating on the Charles river...