Word: westing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...free tickets on cars of the West End Railroad Co. has been prohibited. This rule went into effect...
...with great pleasure that we learn of a valuable addition to the buildings of the University. In the spring, ground will be broken for another section of the museum of Comparative Zoology. The new section will be a continuation of the present west wing and will be used to accommodate the growing needs of the botanical department. It will contain laboratories for the study of both cryptogamic and phaenogamic botany. There will also be rooms for the exhibition of the economic and systematic collections already accumulated, and for which there is at present no adequate accommodation...
...most distinguished lecturers of the West, Professor Wright, of Oberlin Seminary, has recently been delivering a series of lectures in the Lowell course in Boston on the subject of "Glaciers and their Action." He has kindly consented to give a lecture this evening before members of the University on the subject of "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology," using for illustration a selection from his views of glaciers, thrown on the scene in Boylston by Professor Cooke's powerful lantern...
Speaking about the cricket eleven that is to visit the West Indies this winter, the New York Times says: "A new feature will be introduced next season. The colleges are taking an interest in the game. Harvard has challenged Yale for next season, and, should the challenge be accepted, Columbia will also put a team in the field...
...hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward the west is something good to see, and is typical of the college life to-day.- Henry C. Badger, in Magazine of American History for December...