Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arnold Arboretum has arranged to send Mr. E. H. Wilson, the well known English botanical collector, on a two-years' journey in central and western China to gather specimens of Chinese flora. Mr. Wilson is well qualified for this work, as he has already passed five years in China, and is well acquainted with the country and with its flowers...
Riding in a railroad car, the other day, with a Western man, a stranger, our talk strayed to the one absorbing topic: New York--its size, its wealth, its tunnels, its crowds...
...Hamilton, Harvard, Hobart, Johns Hopkins, Iowa College, Lehigh, Leland Stanford, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Oberlin, Princeton, Radcliffe, Smith, Trinity College, Tufts, Union, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, Vassar. Wabash College, Washington and Jefferson College, Wellesley, Wells College, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Western University of Pennsylvania and Yale...
...Abbott graduated from New York University in 1853, and has received the degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He practised law for a time, and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1860. Since then he has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freedmen. In 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited...
...intention of the expedition to make from its headquarters at Arequipa, on the western slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is situated, trips of a few months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically...