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...earliest account of the course pursued at Harvard College is in a tract called 'New England's First Fruits' originally published in 1643, in which we find that one hour a week on Saturday afternoon's during the winter, is set aside for the study of history, the same amount of time during the summer being given up to the study of nature. There is no reason for believing that the standing of history in the curriculum of Harvard College was very much improved for two centuries after these scholastic Foundations. It was not until the year 1839 that...
...Bergen Point Athletic Club has been reorganized under the title of the New Jersey Athletic Club of the City of Bayonne. A tract of land on Bergen Point has been purchased, and a club-house, boat-house and quartermile cinder track will be constructed...
...sure, avail themselves of this exhilarating autumn weather did they know of the delightful walks near here. Good views of the country may be had from Tufts College and Corey's Hill, either of which places is not over three miles distant. Middlesex Fells is a wide tract of woodland some distance beyond Tufts. Concord, Lexington and Walden can be easily reached on foot in a day, and a return be made in the afternoon by rail. All the roads are historical, and freshmen, whether engaged in athletics or not, can do no better than to make use of them...
...students realize that during the past year the authorities have leveled a large piece of land in the rear of Divinity Hall. Up to last fall this tract was full of hollows and ploughed patches devoted to garden purposes. When it was found 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...
...TEMPERANCE TRACT FOR STUDENTS.A sultry clime...