Word: overeers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It has been decided by the managers of the Cornell and University of Pennsylvania crews to hold an annual eight-oared race over a three-mile course on the Thames.
Professor Bryce admires the Harvard yard and the Yale campus. "At Harvard and Yale the brick dormitories and class-rooms are scattered over a wide extent of well-kept lawn; ancient elms planted in every corner lend an additional pleasing effect to the whole.
The observations taken on January 1 by the Harvard party under Professor W. H. Pickering at Willows, Cal., were highly successful. The party consisted of Prof. Pickering and Messrs. S. Bayley, E. S. King and R. Black, and they, together with a number of local assistants, secured over fifty photographs...
Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers...
Though the men were thoroughly exhausted they were around before day-light Thursday and were carried to the station of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad to take the train for St. Louis. One of the most magnificent of Pullman cars was provided for the party. As the train glided over...