Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following members of the senior class at Brown have received the appointment to deliver orations at Commencement: F. D. Aldrich of Massachusetts, C. W. Barrows of Rhode Island, F. O. Clapp of Rhode Island, F. D. Elmer of Connecticut, W. E. Gardner of Rhode Island, G. A. Gordon of Massachusetts, G. H. Olney of Massachusetts, A. R. T. Truex of New York, R. M. Vaughan of Wisconsin, and Benjamin Williams of Michigan...
...lecture instruction work, which started in Philadelphia, has extended to distant localities. Centres have been established in forty-five of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania, and courses have been held under the society's auspices in eleven other states - New Hampshire, Massachusetts. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Louisiana. Dr. James estimates that over 20,000 people attended the various courses during the last year. The object was to reach all classes of people. During the progress of the enterprise it has been found that the women were the first to appreciate...
...upland has been worn to its present condition by the great glaciers which spread over all New England, covering even the highest peaks of the White Mountains. The lowlands, like the valley of the Connecticut River, have been dug out to a lower level because they were formed of soft material. There still exist in New England many traces of the ice period such as the rounded rocks of the mountain tops, and the large boulders found everywhere...
...Brown glee, banjo and mandolin club will make an extended Easter trip, visiting several places in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania...
...William Potts of Connecticut will give a lecture under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club in Sever 11, Monday, Feb. 25, at 7.30 p.m. He will speak on "George William Curtis, as a literary man, as a politician, and as a civil service reformer." Mr. Potts was secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League when Mr. Curtis was its president and is therefore particularly competent to speak about...