Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This excursion, primarily for students of glacial geology, is intended also to afford an opportunity to study the type example of a remnant mountain of harder rock left standing above the New England plateau, when the latter was worn down nearly to base-level during a former cycle of erosion. The party will leave this evening, returning tomorrow night. It will be conducted by Mr. J. B. Woodworth...
...Remnant in Six, Range Six," Ira M'Kenna...
...better start could possibly have been made in the track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty...
...systems of philosophy, but the hope of a future for religion had to be based on something besides these, something of more vital interest to men. Rome, the great centre at one time, of all the learning, all the art, of the world, became later, by virtue of a remnant of this former genius, the centre of religion. She spread her power in every way till finally, in the seventeenth century, she had drawn into her religious supremacy, an almost unlimited power over politics and government throughout Europe In the ninth century, the aspect of Catholicism changed; Rome began...
...Bloody Monday. They will naturally be the leaders, and the decision to continue or stop the custom rests mainly with them. They have been here long enough to learn that the college feeling is against the Bloody Monday initiation; and they ought to put an end to this remnant of barbarity...