Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...TRAFFORD.HARVARD WESTERN CLUB. - There will be an important business meeting followed by a smoker, Thursday evening, Nov. 19, at 7.30 in the Union Club Rooms over Roberts Hall. The meeting is intended to welcome all new men, who live west of the Alleghenies, and who desire to identify themselves with the west...
...from the active centres of the work in the United States, including the leading colleges and Universities: President Andrews, of Brown; Prof. Albert S. Cook, of Yale, president of the Connecticut branch of the American society; Mr. Melvin Dewey, director of the New York University Extension; President Thwing, of Western Reserve; President Coulter, of Indiana; President Adams, of Wisconsin; President Harper, of Chicago; and Provost Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, are among the most prominent representatives who will be present...
...Joll's barber shop, where they can be seen from nearly every point in the square. The stereopticon will be piaced in the window of Allnutt's Dining Rooms and if possible a wire will run directly from there to the main office. The returns are furnished by the Western Union Telegraph Co. and will come from New York. A competant operator on this end has been engaged and providing there is no unforeseen accident the returns given out will be as complete and official as those of any other place. Provisions have been made to run the stereopticon...
...publish in another column our plans for receiving and giving out the election returns. We have made arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Co. by which we are to receive direct from New York the official returns; and these returns we shall cast by stereopticon upon a screen at Joll's barber shop, over Claflin's drug store in the squre. We cannot tell when we shall receive our first returns but they will be cast upon the screen as fast as they come till the final one is received. Since we have made formal arrangements with the proper authorites...
...English John of Guant earned for himself the title of the Navigator, by his expeditions along the coast of Africa, and in 1457 the King of Portugal authorized an expedition to the West. From 1474 on, the influence of Tuscanelli, the Florentine astronomer, was very great. Belief in the western passage was in the air, and in 1479 the theory of the western extension found its greatest adherent in the Italian wanderer who was destined to work out its solution...