Word: radius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number does not include members of the Lawrence Scientific School, whose freshman class numbers 106, fifteen more than last year. In the membership of the College freshman class, Massachusetts is most largely represented, having a total of 277 men. Of these, 183 come from cities and towns within a radius of ten miles of Boston. The large schools of Boston proper do much to swell the the number, although the smaller suburban schools also send good delegations. Twenty-five states of the Union are represented in the remaining membership of the class. After Massachusetts, the seven states sending the largest...
Professor Shaler gave a very interesting lecture before the Graduate Club last night at the Colonial Club, on the influences of environment upon education, with special reference to Cambridge conditions. He dwelt upon the wealth of scenery which the country within a radius of fifteen miles about Cambridge offers, and upon the peculiar historical importance attaching to Boston and its vicinity. There are not more than half a dozen spots in the world of greater interest to the student of history than this region...
...laws which were adopted at this special meeting these sixty will probably be taken into the club as the list of resident members was set at 750, and the limit of non resident members was put at 500. Resident membership is to be within a fifty mile radius of Boston. Graduates of the Institutes of Technology and the United States military and naval academies are eligible on an equal footing with university...
...some college and have taken a degree. The college course must be at least three years. The dues are to be $50 a year for resident members, and $25 a year for non-resident members. The initiation fee is to be $50. Any one living within a fifty-mile radius of the City Hall is to come under the head of resident members...
Certainly this little book will be a revelation to Harvard men and people in general to discover how much there is to be seen almost within sight of Memorial Hall, certainly within a radius of ten miles of Cambridge, for most of Mr. Bolles' rambles have been within those limits. The chief charm of the book is, perhaps, its simplicity and its unaffectednes; and who knows but that Mr. Bolles' book may do for the surroundings of Cambridge what Scott's "Lady of the Lake" did for the picturesque lake region of Scotland...