Word: regionalization
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...ride around the shore through Duxbury, while General Winslow, relying on the good qualities of Beausejour, swam the horse across the channel between the sandspits and won the wager. Mr. Winsor spent much of the summer at Plymouth and devoted part of his time to a study of the region and its history...
...printed in 1645 at Amsterdam, and bears the name of a famous geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures of the author's vivid imagination. On many of the maps animals are pictured supposed to show the species by which the region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western...
...will be noticed that the most remarkable characteristic of this figure is its approach to perfect symmetry in some parts, and its marked divergence from it in others. The weight, which is a trifle heavy for the height, is very uniformly distributed, the only excess being in the region of the chest, hips and arms. The relative proportion of the different heights of the body is very nearly true. The only divergence is a slight falling off in the sitting height, which is probably due to the shortness of the neck. The neck and chest are large in circumference...
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
...occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights for the soul of man. So it was in the region of experience, a true enlargement of the deep life of the college...