Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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General Armstrong also said that the Indian is slow to acquire a knowledge of English, but can readily solve mathematical problems if the conditions are not too complicated. In conclusion the lecturer said that there is no fear that those Indians, who have been carefully educated in the east, will, on returning to their tribes, fall back to their original level...
...short time to result in the location by Mr. Cummings of a work in Boston which shall be directly connected with Harvard University and which shall do for the more degraded parts of Boston what Toynbee Hall, as the representative of Oxford University, has done for the slums of East London...
...room and of safe means of lighting the present reading-room artificially. The need of such a reading room- spacious, well ventilated, well lighted, and open up to 10 p. m.- he says, is very urgent, and the best plan is to build a large room at the north-east corner of Weld Hall, at a very short distance from Gore Hall, so as not to darken the delivery room and the present reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room is to be connected with...
...churches, temples, paintings and antiquities. He would be obliged to confine himself to one subject-namely, the topography of Rome. He would walk with his listeners from one place of interest to another, starting at the northern portion of the city, and going a circular path towards the east, showing them the views he had collected. Rome, he said, had changed much in the last twenty-five years, and now there is a new and flourishing city built in among the relics of Ancient Rome...
...expedients will prevent the immediate surroundings of the university from taking on at any point the usual aspect of "vacant lots" in the outskirts of towns and villages, features which, in California, on account of the dry summer climate, are apt to be more forlorn even than in the east...