Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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According to advices received at the Peabody Museum from Mr. Gordon, who is in charge of the explorations to be made at Copan, President Sierra of Honduras has conceded to Harvard University, by treaty arranged at Tegucigalpa on Feb. 22, the charge of the ruins of Copan and the lands...
NEW HAVEN, CONN., March 30, 1900.--Harvard this evening defeated Yale in one of the closest of intercollegiate debates. The question for debate was: "Resolved, That Porto Rico be included in the customs' boundary of the United States." Harvard supported the negative. The teams were made up as follows: Harvard...
The popularity of the subject brought out an unusually large audience, every seat being taken and many being obliged to stand. Among the crowd were about a dozen Harvard men as well as Hill and Scott of Princeton, who came to study the tactics of the Yale speakers. The rebuttal...
The last of the Phillips Brooks House teas will be held this afternoon. Mrs. Eliot, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Pickering, Mrs. Shaler, and a few other ladies, together with some of the instructors in the different departments, will be present, and will be glad to welcome, in a quite informal way...
The club crews at Yale have been especially fortunate in securing permission to row on Lake Whitney three miles from the college. They will make use of this permission after April 19.