Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...southern slope of Mount Lycabettus, about fifteen minutes' walk from the centre of the city, is an open reservation about a quarter of a mile square, partly laid out as public grounds, partly occupied by public buildings. Here on the western side is the hospital Evangelion, and higher up the hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor...
When we read so frequently of the many trips of the various musical organizations of Yale, the torpid state of our own societies is brought vividly into prominence. The Yale Glee and Bajo Clubs have lately returned from a trip on which many of the western cities were visited and concerts given. This trip is but one of the many indulged in annually by the Yale musical associations, which show the interest taken in these matters by our sister college. The state of our societies suffer much in contrast. Although receiving invitations almost weekly to visit neighboring cities...
Robt. Corwin, captain of last year's Yale foot-ball team, is at the head of a western grain elevator...
...committee of the directors of the West End Railway Co. has gone for a two week's visit to the western cities to investigate the system of cable roads with a view towards introducing the system in Boston...
Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State...