Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Drum Corps, under the unequalled direction of Major Winslow, covered itself with renown-and mud. Seriously, however, there were few other corps in the procession which performed so well...
...light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from fire. It is fifty percent. cheaper than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this time. The Incandescent lamp constructed with the carbon tube or cylinder, gained great renown at the world's fair of electricity at Vienna last autumn and is considered to be the best electric light in existence, adapted to indoor and out-door lighting, and has not its equal for night study, and as it possesses the same quality as the sun light, it never...
...editorial column of the latest Acta Columbiana. "The University of Pennsylvania has evibecome tired of such unsatisfactory victories as those she has won in the past few years over Princeton, and now longs for greater glory. To say the least, the university has taken a strange way of winning renown. And yet when we consider that it is the U. of Penn. that has invented this new way of becoming champion oarsmen, it is not so strange after all. The university has simply reached the climax of its boating policy, which policy has always been, first...
Founded by the citizens of Boston in 1635, one year before Harvard, it has maintained an uninterrupted existence of 240 years, and today its prosperity and renown are surpassed by no other school in America. The school's history contains much that is of interest which cannot be contained in such a limited article, and but a few of the more important facts can be noted...
...made at Yale but they all followed in the steps of the "Cabinet"until in 1839 the "Yale Lit" was founded, and this is now the foremost of her publications. Among its editors it has numbered Pres. Gilman of Jolms Hopkins, Secretary Evarts, Donald Milchell and others of equal renown. Of Harvard'd publications Mr. Thwing says "although Harvard's papers have been less numerous than Yale's, they indicate, (considered as a whole) greater literary ability and have had greater influence on college opinion." This is certainly flattering. In 1827 we find that the "Harvard Register" appeared...