Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well established. It is well filled with all the local news, of which it prints from three to six columns a day. One of its strong features is its "notes and comments," which are very bright and spicy. It has a Harvard correspondent, who proposes to furnish all the college news. All the newsdealers have...
Professor Agassiz's new book, "A Contribution to American Thalassography," supplies a vacant place in the literature of oceanic basins. The book is the result of several cruises on board the steamer "Blake" of the U. S. Coast Survey. The materials collected furnish valuable information for the study of animal life in deep water, and the conclusions arrived at cause new views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida...
...honor of American scholarship, and to represent our interests in the field as well at home, it is proposed to furnish an American student to aid in the explorations by the Egypt Exploration Fund of England and America. It is also most important to have one of our countrymen who is versed not only in Egyptology and in the recent 'results,' but who is personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection...
...meeting of the Boston Y. M. C. A., this evening, the Technology Glee Club will furnish music, and Mr. E. C. Pfeiffer, '89, late captain of the University crew, will speak. The subject before the meeting will be the true scope and limitations of athletics and open air sports. The rules for the open air club, in connection with the Union Athletic grounds, will also be announced and organization effected...
...filibustering against the refund of the direct tax will furnish an example and excuse for filibustering against tariff revision, and would justify similar action on every measure before Congress: Boston Journal, April 5 and 7; Boston Globe, April...