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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present work is being rapidly pursued in the construction of a very large canal, and it is expected that this part of the arid region will soon be a most fertile land. A large number of the the smaller rivers cross this territory. The frost is never severe; the mean temperature is 620, and the summers are long and hot. The soil of the arid region is rich, and the opportunities for irrigation are great. The population of the United States is rapidly increasing, and the rising generation will see it reach 200,000,000. The arid region alone...
Professor Francis G. Peabody was the principal guest of the Mass. School-Masters' club at its meeting at the Brunswick, Saturday last. He spoke on "The Education of the Dangerous Classes" which he interpreted to mean the dangerous classes in college...
March 31-"Volts and Amperes and what they Mean." Professor Chalres F. Chandler, Ph. D. of Columbia college...
...Garrison. He urged that all men should give up their personal comfort to try for the teams, train, or at least applaud on the field. "Imogene Donahue" was followed by a short speech from Dr. F. M. Weld, '60. He said that he understood Harvard's recent action to mean that she is unwilling to trust her teams to a committee composed of outsiders. He had no fears about Harvard's being left alone. Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, was then introduced. After some witty remarks, he gave his theory for Yale's success that their faculty, graduates, and undergraduates...
...this time Athens was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants consisting principally of Turks, Greeks and Albanians. The city was poor and squalid, with narrow lanes, and no taverns for the accommodation of travelers. The houses were mean yet they contained many historic remains. The Acropolis was a Turkish fortress and closed to the Greeks; here lived the Turkish soldiery which garrisoned the city...