Word: coast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wolff, instructor in Petrography, has been made assistant professor for next year. He is at present in New Jersey on work connected with the United States Geological Coast Survey, where he will be joined in two weeks by a number of Harvare geology students as assistants...
...place at the grounds of the above Club, on June 13 and following days. Several prominent players have already entered, including E. L. Hall, of New York, who has just won the Southern championship, at Washington, and A. E. Wright, of New York, who won from Grimstead, the Gulf coast championship, at Tampa, Fla., this past winter...
...Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site of a coast observatory, for which there is already a liberal endowment. While President Eliot was there, the peak was christened "Mt. Harvard...
...conclusively, when supplemented by his own material, the necessity of this country for a protective tariff. The Senator spoke feelingly on the subject of domestic manufactures, gave vivid examples of prosperity under the present system, and closed by exposing our present helplessness in regard to our naval force and coast defences. He praised England's constant upbuilding of her navy and expansion of shipping, and promised that our Senate would see to bettering our own navy...
...school library, then, is one of the most useful aids to the study of geography; another important help is a collection of maps, photographs and diagrams. The United States Coast Survey has made careful engravings of almost all parts of the American coast, and illustrations taken from these maps give a much better idea of the subject than can be gained from a very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they...