Word: northern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture of last Monday night, Prof. Wright gave the results of his own researches for facts to work out the details of Prof. Agassiz's already proved Glacial Theory. He had himself located the southern boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines...
...call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges...
...dozen concerts thus far. The Glee Club is considered the best for several years, and the Mandolin Club makes a great hit wherever it is heard. The clubs start on their annual trip the day after Christmas, giving their first concert at Harrisburg and then going through the northern part of Pennsylvania and New York on a three weeks trip...
Just before the game was called on Thursday, some one hoisted a large crimson flag which bore a white "H" on the tall staff at the middle of the northern side of the grounds...
...should not make himself acceptable to his companions rather than otherwise. President Dwight draws a line between a true gentleman and a gentleman of leisure." In other words a gentleman must do his share of the world's work. This is essentially a modern idea; it is a northern idea and a republican idea; and it deserves support everywhere...