Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first time. Two-thirds of the homeward fare will be deducted on tickets over all the railroads covering the territory east of the Alleghany, the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. A similar reduction will probably be secured from points in Texas and in some of the central and western states...
...Boston Park commission last night announced good skating at the following places: Franklin Field, Roslindale, Billing's Field (West Roxbury), Columbus Avenue Play Grounds, and the North Brighton Play Grounds, on Western avenue, near Soldiers Field. Jamaica Pond is being cleared of snow, though the ice is still thin in some places. If cold weather continues the pond may be opened to the public tomorrow...
...Montague '01 has written under the heading "Mr. George Moore" an exhaustive criticism of that novelists' work. "Wanship, out West" by F. W. Reynolds '03 is a sketch of a dusty little Western town,--interesting because it is written with the appreciation of true feeling. There are two stories.--"The Line of Least Resistance" by J. G. Forbes, and "Nettle Touch" by J. LaFarge. They are good stories and somewhat similar in purpose, each bringing out in an incident of the life of a young man the prevalence of the better instincts over the worse...
Forty-five states and territories of the Union and 6 foreign countries are represented in the University. The representation from the southern and far western states has fallen off, and the increase in the enrolment has come chiefly through the larger numbers from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania...
...American Exploration Society has recently presented to the Peabody Museum one of the sixteen sarcophagi found in the necropolis of the ancient city of Musarna in the territory of Viterbo, Western Italy. The district, lying mainly on the banks of the river Leia, is now a part of the estate of Signor Alarico Pratti. The sarcophagus weighs 3300 pounds and is still in the basement of the Museum. It was found in a tomb that had already been ransacked by spoliators and which contained two chambers. Access was gained to the first chamber by the usual gallery...