Word: southern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trowbridge street, a large, handsomely furnished room, southern exposure, steam heat and register, electric lighted, gas, first-class service...
Timothy Hopkins, recently treasurer of the Southern Pacifice Railway, has presented his collection of railroad books, numbering 1,000 volumes, to Leland Stanford University...
...have been issued by the New Haven Lawn Club for the New England championship meeting which takes place at the grounds of the above Club, on June 13 and following days. Several prominent players have already entered, including E. L. Hall, of New York, who has just won the Southern championship, at Washington, and A. E. Wright, of New York, who won from Grimstead, the Gulf coast championship, at Tampa, Fla., this past winter...
...visited the great preparatory school there. Next he visited Bryn Mawr College, Washington University, of St. Louis, Denver, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Leaving Colorado he went directly to California. He spent about two weeks in San Francisco and around San Francisco Bay. Thence he went to Southern California, visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Redlands, and San Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory...
Seventy-five per cent. of the colleges established in the United States during the last twenty years have been in the Southern States...