Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public will not be admitted to Sanders till 7.55, five minutes before the lecture begins...
...before a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum lecture room on "The Guiana Boundary Question." He began by describing the physical characteristics of the country. The coast for fifty miles inland is a low marshy country, suited for the cultivation of sugar. There it begins to slope up till it reaches at its highest point a height of 6000 feet above sea level...
...remaining men trying for the freshman team. About thirty men reported at the first 'varsity practice in the cage. This list does not include the men on last year's team, as they will not begin work for several weeks yet. Light practice in fielding and batting will continue till the weather permits out-door work. Judging from the showing of the candidates so far there will be no trouble in filling all the vacant positions with the exception of catcher. None of the men trying for this place seem to have pre-eminent ability, yet, on account...
...resignation of Mr. Gilman as regent of Radcliffe College. The committee has done nothing as yet and probably will not hand in its report before next June. It is impossible to say at present who will be Mr. Gilman's successor. He will of course stay in office till the end of the year, and after his resignation remain a member of the corporation and is likely to be on some of the committees...
...terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation; but all these experiences of course were unconscious preparation for the joint debate with Douglas in 1858, with which Lincoln's hour may be said to have struck. Yet it was not till after the Mason and Slidel affair that the country began to discover itself in the bands of a wise, firm and gentle ruler. The successes of Grant's armies in 1864 fully established Lincoln with the world. It has been said with truth that at the time of his death...