Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chance to indulge in their favorite sport. At both Oxford and Cambridge the boat-houses are supplied with ordinary rowboats, and the students gladly avail themselves of the opportunity for exercise thus offered. Just now we are agitating the question of forming a canoe club. This will go far toward making aquatic exercise popular among our undergraduates, but if some provision could be made for the men who miss their accustomed work at the oar and yet are unable to procure a canoeing outfit, great good might be accomplished...
...that the college grounds would be cramped by the building of the new Jefferson Laboratory, the hollows were filled up and a large hummock leveled, then this new field was planted with grass-seed. The whole is an acre or so in extent and has only a gentle slope toward the southeast. Mr. Eveleth, superintendent of the grounds, said that in June, after the grass had been cut once, the turf would be in a condition for use. This seemed hardly probable to one looking at the softness of the grounds at present. However, next fall, or year from this...
...Sherman's forces. His efforts failed; he lost 20,000 men and was compelled to retire into the defenses of the city itself. These were so strong that Sherman dared not order assaults. Instead. he destroyed one line of railway in the rear of Hood, and made a move toward the only other. In so doing he moved away from the city, and Hood thought himself free. What was his surprise to find a day later Sherman breaking up his only line of retreat. He moved out to defend it, and before he knew it the Federal army was upon...
...four months with a loss of only 30,000 men he had captured Atlanta, fought a crafty foreman and overcome many natured difficulties. Johnston and Hood had lost 35,000 men. Sherman refitted his army and rested for a month. Mean while Hood began to attack his communications toward Chattanooga. Sherman moved back after him and repaired the railways destroyed. In this manner, one chasing the other, the two armies had almost reached the starting point again. After corresponding with Gen. Grant, Sherman determined on his famous march to the sea with Savannah. Sending back part of his troops...
Professor C. E. Morton, president of the American Archaeological Institute, has received $500 toward defraying the expenses of the Assos Expedition, from the Boston Architects' Society...