Word: coast
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...engineers, chemists and bacteriologists, under the charge of Mr. Freeman, chief consulting engineer, has been at work during the summer. As no satisfactory chart existed, a thorough survey and sounding was made of the basin and its tributary canals, and a chart was constructed similar to those of the Coast Survey. The currents in the harbor have also been carefully studied and charted...
...last meeting of the Yacht Club plans were made for a club cruise next summer along the New England coast. The fleet will rendezvous at Marblehead on August 4 and will sail eastward to Isleboro, Me., stopping at Portland and other principal places along the coast. Plans were also discussed for the cruise south of Cape Cod, but the time of the start and other details will be arranged later. It was voted to hold club races for a challenge cup off Marblehead probably on June 20. Boats of thirty feet and under will be allowed to enter...
...from the University during the past year, arrived last Thursday in New York from Southampton, England. Professor Agassiz, with Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, his son, and H. B. Bigelow as assistants, started last October on an expedition to study the coral structure of the Maldive Islands, off the south coast of Ceylon. When the party reached England, Mr. Chamberlain gave Professor Agassiz letters to the Governor of Ceylon, and the governor, Sir West Ridgeway, gave him letters to the Sultan of the Maldives. In this way every facility possible for their investigations was assured...
President Eliot will leave Boston for his trip to the Pacific Coast on the night of February 18. He will go directly to New York to attend the first meeting of the Arbitration Committee of the National Civic Federation on February 19. On February 21 he will attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of New York, and the same night will leave for Baltimore where he will be present at the twenty-fifth anniversary of Johns Hopkins University. From Baltimore he will go to Cleveland, where he will attend the annual dinner of the Harvard Club, February...
...Harvard Club has just been formed in California. This is the first permanent organization of the sort that has ever been undertaken on the Pacific coast. The committee in charge of the club is composed of the following: Chairman, C. Monroe '70; secretary, H. O. Collins '67; and R. Avery '97, C. J. Ellis '65, G. H. Gould '72, R. Jones...