Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miscellaneous.- Oregon has opened a State University...
...course of my summer rambles I wandered as far east as Orono, the seat of the Maine State College, and, happening there in the midst of their Class-Day exercises, I took the opportunity of studying the character and customs of that institution. There are probably so few in this University who ever heard of the place that I may be pardoned for mentioning its location on the Penobscot, twenty miles beyond Bangor...
Some one has defined civilized communities as those where one can get a good beefsteak; and as this article is rarely found east of Boston, the state of civilization that exists at Orono can be easily imagined...
...drawbacks, the photographic art gives a deal of pleasure to man-kind. Not to speak of the character-study presented by every album, we can gratify ourselves with the sight of distant friends without the intervention of spirits; and in their "photos" they present themselves in a constant state of imperturbable good-nature and equanimity...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...