Word: distant
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...pamphlet issued by the Canadian Club is a gratifying evidence of the members' loyalty to Harvard. In spite of the reputation of the college, life here inevitably becomes distorted in distant states and in Canada, and stories are circulated about Harvard's being "a place for rich men's sons only" a hot-bee of atheism, and other absurdities. The only means of refuting these distortions is by placing the facts before the public. This is what the members of the Canadian Club have done. They describe briefly the library, expenses, pecuniary aid, religious services, and the college...
They were unable, however, to agree upon the place for the fifth game which was to be played in case of a tie. The Yale representatives offered Springfield as a perfectly neutral ground, being equally distant from both colleges. The Harvard representatives were unwilling to accept this, but offered the following propositions...
...public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence new arguments for in fluencing the lives of his contemporaries. The picture...
...club resolved to enlarge its boundaries so as to include Minnesota and all the states and territories west of the Mississippi and outside Missouri Arkansas, Texas, and California. The number of students from this region is only about fifty and in the majority of cases men from the distant and sparsely setted countries do not know a single soul at Harvard college, are ignorant of the habits and manners of the east, and frequently for the first year or two feel estranged from the whole world. An organization to welcome such men to Harvard and put them at their ease...
...Allen, '92, Batchelder '92, Winslow '93, Kent '93, K. Brown '91, Sturgis '90. These men will enter a very large number of events. Those who are to enter the B. A. A. games are doing their work in the morning and those who are simply training for the more distant intercollegiate games work in the afternoon...