Word: northern
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Texas he will visit the state Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the University of Texas on February 23 and 24. At San Antonio on February 26 he will be present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. Going then to New Orleans the president is to attend a dinner of the state Harvard Club and inspect the University of Louisiana and Tulane University...
...Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and will go on the following day to Austin where he will be the guest of President Mezes '90, Ph.D. '93, of the University of Texas. On February 26 he will be present in San Antonio at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. He will spend the next three days at Houston, from where he will probably go to Galveston...
...meeting of the classical conference held yesterday afternoon in Harvard 1, Professor D. G. Lyon h.'01 gave an interesting explanation of the explorations made last summer by the Harvard Expedition to Samaria, of which he was in charge. This city, the capital of northern Israel, was rebuilt with great splendor by Herod the Great, and it is the remains of his buildings that have been discovered. The mound which covers the ancient city is about five miles in circumference and covered with olive groves and wheat fields...
Near the modern town of Sebastiyeh, were found the remains of a stadium or amphitheatre, which are marked by lines of columns on the north and west. A portion of the northern end was cleared, revealing some handsome masonry at the northwest corner, apparently belonging to a later period...
...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...