Word: regions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this college by only twenty-five men, -a number only slightly exceeding the representation in the university of the western city of San Francisco. Of course, the cause for this small showing of Southerners here is the impoverished state of the South since the war. Only a wealthy region sends men to college. But, in view of the present growth of the South toward prosperity this cause should soon be operating less and less. In fact, we hear that the number of Southerners at Princeton is already beginning to approach the old ante bellum figures. We therefore hope soon...
...want of room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received. The pieces of skeletons, hundreds in number for each bone, are arranged with infinite care and labor. Several men are constantly employed at this work. Two collectors are kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign universities the benefit of the collection by sending many plaster casts to them...
...scarcely a road is without this improvement, and iron rails are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. On account of a recent improvement, the power of the Bessemer process has been largely increased. It was formerly limited to certain ores, which were scarce in the coal region of our country, but now can be extended to such a degree as to be almost universal in its workings...
There will be an excursion in N. H. 4 today to Quincy station, and thence by foot to Braintree, where there is a tribalite region containing many fossils...
...winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh." It is no longer possible to spend one's spare hours in tramping around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery, for which this region is so celebrated. The summer guests have all left for the pleasures and excitements of the city; and almost of necessity must the two hundred and fifty students look to their own resources for social enjoyment. Considering these circumstances, I believe I can safely say that at no other college...