Word: western
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...Usurper of the Range," by W. Jones '00, is without doubt the best piece of fiction in the number. Its subject is fresh and unhackneyed, and treated with a firmness and sureness of touch which shows the writer's perfect knowledge of the western life and incidents he depicts...
...edited by Professor Benjamin L. Robinson. The usual amount of research work is in progress. Among those engaged in it are Professor Piper, of the Washington Agricultural College, and Professor Henderson of the Iowa Agricultural College, who are here on leave of absence, to study the type specimens of western plants in the Herbarium collection...
...relative size of Harvard and Yale and their development during the past year are contained in the following table of sectional representation. The country is divided into four sections: northeastern, comprising New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; central, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; western, comprising all states west of the Mississippi; and southern, comprising all states south of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi. Foreign countries make up a fifth division. The table shows the number of graduates and undergraduates now at Harvard and Yale from each section, the increase in numbers over last year, Harvard...
...above table shows that 79 1-4 per cent. of Harvard students come from the northeastern section, 8 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 6 1-2 per cent. from the western, 3 3-4 per cent. from the southern and 2 per cent. from foreign countries. At Yale, 75 3-4 per cent. are from the northeastern section, 9 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 7 3-4 per cent. from the western, 5 per cent. from foreign countries. Of all the men attending the two universities, Harvard has 63 per cent. from the northeastern...
...each class in their tutor's room; afterwards all the students came together in Commons Hall or the Library; and later an apartment in the old Harvard Hall was used as a chapel. In 1744, Holden Chapel was erected. The building was entered by the door at the western end and the seats were ranged one above the other from the middle aisle to the side walls. Soon after 1766 a room on the lower story of the new Harvard Hall was taken for devotional exercises. In 1775 the academic buildings were occupied as barracks by the American troops...