Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan which Mr. Gordon has proposed and which has been adopted by the Museum, involves the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the ruins in the Copan valley and comprising several thousand acres, and the building of a house thereon to serve as headquarters for exploration from year to year. The runs will furnish an abundant supply of building stone ready at hand, and the forests of pine, cedar and mahogany growing on the land will afford a supply of building material which will be found convenient, in the absence of facilities for transportation...
...large tract of land known as the Stockton Place has been leased by the Golf Association, and will be fitted up for use by members of the club. The old Stockton residence will be made into a club-house. Chester Griswold, Jr., '99, has been elected captain of the University Golf Team for the season of 1900-1901, to succeed John Stuart...
Cornell University has been enlarged by the addition of two new colleges-the College of Medicine to be erected in New York City, and the New York State College of Forestry at Ithaca. The College of Forestry is the first in the county. The forest tract will consist ot thirty thousand acres, to be purchased in the Adirondacks...
...step in the right direction. The bicycle races in the annual intercollegiate games have rarely been thoroughly satisfactory. In the first place the track itself, though well adapted for the other races, is almost always unsuited for bicycles and the result is that accidents to wheelmen are frequent. A tract that is intended for bicycle racing should be especially made for that purpose, but a track of this kind would not necessarily be a good one for the other events of an intercollegiate athletic meeting. In the second place this particular form of sport has grown to such an extent...
...natives had was taxed. The oppression was intolerable. Such was the condition of affairs when Gordon arrived. He succeeded Sir Samuel Baker as governor of the Equatorial Provinces, which extended from the 23rd degree of north latitude to the equator and from the Red Sea westward. In this great tract of country Gordon had absolute power. This condition was necessary in order that he might bring about the great reforms which he had projected, especially the abolishment of the slave trade. As The influence of the slave dealers was very powerful, Gordon met with the strongest opposition. One revolt broke...