Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game between Leland Stanford University and the University of California for the championship of the Western coast, will be played on Thanksgiving day. Yale-Princeton rules will be used...
...scenery may be divided into six classes: the sea, the coast, the marshes and creeks, the fresh water districts, the level fields and plains, and the rocky hills...
...fresh water regions the scenery equals or surpasses the broad grandeur of the coast lands. The numerous ponds and streams in the vicinity of Boston have been protected and the shrubbery at the water's edge left standing. From some of the ponds the Blue Hills can be seen, making a bit of scenery equal to that of the mountains...
Blue Hill, on the south coast, overlooks this territory around Boston, whose beauties every student ought to seek, and in visiting which his spare time can be most profitably spent...
...independence is for the political interest of the U. S.- (a) It will secure for the U. S. an ascendancy in Cuba.- (b) This ascendancy is most desirable,- (1) To keep Cuba from Great Britain.- (x) It would complete a formidable chain of British possessions around our eastern coast.- (2) For the strategic value of Cuba to the U. S.- (x) A valuable outpost of defence.- (1) It has many excellent harbors.- (2) Our coast opposit has very few.- (x) Cuba commands many important lines of trade.- (1) Gulf of Mexico.- (2) Entire commerce passing through the Nicaragua canal...