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...equipment of the Weld Boat House and the acceptance of the Soldier's Field are recorded. The University now owns on the south side of the Charles River 21 acres of upland and 93 acres of marsh with frontage on North Harvard St. and right of way to Western Avenue. The only restriction is as to building on Mr. Longfellow's gift...
...detritus carried by the torrent is opened out in a broad fan-delta of gentle declivity across the bottom of a wider valley of greater age: and the river of this valley is thereby pushed against the further slope, where it undercuts the bank, forcing the highway to the upland. The volcanie island and the coast line are not less instructive...
...groups, together with two or three of the principal cities, such as Stockholm and Gothenburg, are represented in the universities by societies called "Nations." There are about a round dozen of these Nations, taking their names from the provinces or cities which they represent; the Gota Nation, from Gothenburg; Upland's Nation, Nerike's and Gefle, from provinces of the same names, and so on. The mere fact of a student belonging to a certain city or province entitles him, upon presenting credentials, to an "enlistment" into one of these Nations...
...negro problem is the other great problem. There are three classes of negroes: 1 - The educated and ambitious; 2 - The inhabitants of the upland States, who are intelligent and industrious; 3 - Those in the lowland States, like Mississippi, who are but three generations removed from a savage ancestry, and are half savage themselves. The upland negroes are as far superior to the negroes of the lowlands or "black belt" as we are to our barbarous Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Among the former the negro problem is solving itself. Amalgamation is not, as yet, an important factor in the problem...
That was all, - some rods of upland clearing...