Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ballet, which was given in the entre-acts, opens with a scene showing the coast guard walking his beat. As soon as he has gone by, appear the five Nereides in a dance. They are followed by Amphitrite who, issuing from the sea, throws on the sand an oyster, during a graceful dance. The first part ends with the five Nereides and Amphitrite dancing. In the second part appear the Travelers, who wander along the shore and discover the oyster. The sea nymphs and Amphitrite watch them from the background. The Travelers quarrel over the oyster and are surprised...
...hundred and forty-seven meteors were observed in the course of the evening at the Harvard Observatory of which eighty-three were Leonids. The shower did not commence until after 12 and was at its height between 2 and 3 o'clock. From the reports of Pacific coast observatories it appears that the main shower was visible only in the west, due to the fact that the earlier daylight in the east made the Leonids invisible during the larger showers...
President Eliot expects to make a trip to the Pacific coast this winter, leaving Cambridge about March 1. No details of his trip have been arranged, but he will undoubtedly be the guest of various Harvard Clubs in the West...
...three rivers, the Charles, Mystic and Neponset, which cut through it. The most characteristic features of the views are the very numerous glacial ponds, the narrow, open valleys, the small rock-broken hills and the broad level salt marshes. Beautiful views are to be obtained along the coast at all seasons of the year. No better illustration of sand beach with its rollers can be found than Revere Beach, easily accessible by the narrow gauge railway from Boston. Here in winter, after storms the scenes are very impressive, the snow being banked up by the waves sometimes to the height...
...marshes furnish views beautiful in their breadth and simplicity; nearer Cambridge, as in Waverly, Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...