Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory and saw the fine equipment of Professor Holden. At Santa Cruz he saw some of the big trees of California, many of which were 300 feet high and 60 feet in circumference. After this he went to Leland Stanford Jr. University where he experienced a rather sharp shock of earthquake. From the university he went back to San Francisco and then...