Word: northern
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stereopticon views, over 200 in number, admirably illustrated the scenes of Dr. Grenfell's work. Rugged mountains, lofty cliffs, vast fields of ice and towering icebergs, bore out Dr. Grenfell's statement that the scenery was fully as beautiful with its sunsets and long fjords as the northern coast of Norway...
After serving for three years as the first graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, Mr. Carter went to India in the fall of 1902 to become a traveling secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in northern India, working especially among students. The Harvard Christian Association made itself responsible for, and has since raised each year his personal salary of $800. During the first six months of his work in India he traveled about 16,000 miles, organizing new associations and developing existing ones. In the summer of 1903 he was advanced to the post of general secretary...
...third annual meeting of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League was held at the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, on Saturday afternoon, December 22. The following colleges were represented: Northern Division--Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Hobart, Pennsylvania: Southern Division--Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Stevens Institute of Technology, Swarthmore. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: president, W. H. Maddren, of Johns Hopkins; vice-president, J. Miller, of Lehigh; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Weeks, of Hobart...
Cups were presented to Cornell and Johns Hopkins as the champions of the Northern and Southern Leagues respectively, and Hobart was formally admitted to the Northern Division of the League...
...Furlong has spent several years of travel and research in Northern Africa, and principally in the least known district, Tripoli. In 1904 he was the first American in two years to enter the town. There he devoted especial attention to bringing to light the circumstances of the expedition against the Corsairs...