Word: west
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suggested the ideas that were afterwards embodied in the bill that passed Congress? I would ask, who pointed out the nature of the difficulty in regard to the grangers and railroads? The views lately propounded by C. F. Adams, Jr., as to the over-production of railroads in the West, and the consequent over-cultivation of land, resulting in loss to both railroads and farms, were to be found in the Nation at an early date. The Nation also pointed out the lesson of the California Bank affair. But why multiply instances? The Nation is, or ought...
...annual meeting of the Fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa for the election of officers and the transaction of other business will be held in the West Lecture-Room of Boylston Hall on Thursday, July 1, at 10 A. M. The Orator of the Day will be Rev. DR. T. D. WOOLSEY, Ex-President of Yale University, and the Poet, Rev. WALTER MITCHELL, Hv. '46, of Middletown, Conn. The public are cordially invited to the exercises in Appleton Chapel. Doors open at 12 M. Tickets for the dinner will be ready at the University Book Store on Class-Day morning...
...Regatta Committee reported a long list of promises for the fulfilment of which the Saratoga Rowing Association had given bonds, which would seem to embrace everything that could be desired. The finish is to be off Ramsdell's Point, so that the start will be on the west side of Snake Hill, in order that more people can see the race and that there shall be no danger of beaching on Ramsdell's Point. The positions of the crews are, numbering from the west shore: 1, Williams; 2, Cornell; 3, Amherst; 4, Bowdoin; 5, Brown; 6, Columbia; 7, Wesleyan...
...history informs us that Cambridge is distant "three miles, one quarter, and sixty rods from the Old State House, by the way of West Boston bridge." We also learn that "from the hilly surface of several parts, and the passage of Charles River through the middle of the town, the air is very pure. Many of the inhabitants have attained great longevity; and invalids from other towns have realized the beneficial effects of a salubrious air from a temporary residence in the town." This was evidently written before the discovery of Miller's River. The alewive fishery in these waters...
...when the sun rose in the west...