Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prof. Fiske will be absent on the Pacific coast for several months...
...isolation of the British on this continent between the coast on the east and the practically impassable Appalachians on the west may be attributed the great development of maritime pursuits. As these barriers have been broken down by modern methods, and new fields thrown open, commerce has been more and more neglected...
...years 1853-4 and 1857-70 Professor Lovering was Regent of the University. He was interested in the Harvard Observatory and its growth was largely due to his energy. In 1867-76 he was connected with the United States Coast Survey. In 1868-9 he was granted a year's absence and in 1879 received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard. From 1854 to 1873 he was permanent secretary of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science and edited fifteen volumes of its proceedings. He had been elected a member of the American Acad. of Arts and Sciences...
...died, and on Oct. 6 Dr. Hill succeeded him as president of the University. He served until Sept. 30, 1868, when he was obliged by illness to resign. He returned to Waltham, which town he represented in the Legislature of 1871. Later he accompanied Professor Louis Agassiz on the coast surveying expedition to South America. On his return he accepted the pastorship of the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Me., and this position he held until his death...
...some are still to be bought. President Eliot then introduced Professor Toy who spoke of the extent and use of the Museum, and the life of the Semitic people. Phoenicia was the first naval nation and the inventor of the alphabet. The Phoenicians left their traces on all the coast of the Mediterranean and planted many religious ideas in Greece...