Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ground lying between Harvard and Massachusetts Hall and the original Stoughton Halls, which stood facing the main gate and made the eastern side of a quadrangle. The old Stoughton Hall was more picturesque than the other dormitories: it was three stories high, had dormer windows, and made some pretensions toward architectural beauty. In this building and in Massachusetts-at that time a dormitory-forty to fifty students had their rooms...
...early catalogues as New Hall, was built in 1804, the funds necessary for it having been mainly obtained by a lottery sanctioned by the legislature. The building, as it stands now, has undergone but few changes since its erection. Originally there were staircases from each door, but those toward the common have long ago disappeared to make space for bed-rooms, and the little closets called "studies" have been torn down to make the rooms larger...
...Again, the race with Harvard is toward the end of June, and if we trained our crew for a race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...
...kick-off, but he was downed before he gained ten yards. A sharp rush by Channing advanced the ball twenty yards and short runs by Black and Cowan carried it close to Yale's goal line. Here the ball went to Yale, and Gill getting it, carried it well toward the centre of the field. Bull punted and Ames returned. After kicking by both backs the ball went finally to Yale on Princeton's twenty-yard line. Bull tried for a goal from the field but missed. Princeton brought the ball out to the twenty-five yard line, where...
...meeting of the Historical Society held last evening in Dr. Har's room in Hollis, President Ladd of the University of New Mexico, gave an interesting criticism of the Indian policy of the United States government. The speaker said that the injustice of the people of this country toward the Indians is a blacker stain upon our name as a nation than that of slavery. The rights of the Indians which we have repeatedly recognized in treaties and in decisions of the court, we have continually violated. In no instance has the cause of an Indian war with its terrible...