Word: harbor
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Manila Bay is a fine harbor, its only fault being that the entrance is too wide to protect vessels from the typhoons. To remedy this the Spanish government began the construction of a break water, but through mismanagement of funds little had been accomplished. The climate is by no means so bad as is imagined. fifteen or twenty years of American rule should make Manila the greatest city of the East...
...illness of some of the members of the University crew has necessarily retarded progress and interfered seriously with the work of the boat. Either on account of the malarial condition of New Haven or of the harbor alone, two members of the crew, Wickes and Williams, and a substitute, Cross, have been unable to row for some time. The anxiety of the undergraduate body has been acute and was only slightly mitigated, when on Sunday all the men except Wickes left for New London on Colonel Payne's yacht, Eleanor...
...FITZ.ALL STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING.- On Friday afternoon, June 3d, there will be an excursion down Boston harbor to visit the "Main Drainage Works," including the settling basins and pumping station. The city steamer "Cormorant" will leave the wharf just back of the ship "Minnesota," near the Congress street bridge, at 2 o'clock. The excursion will be very interesting. All students in engineering are invited...
...HAYES.ALL STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING.- On Friday afternoon, June 3d, there will be an excursion down Boston harbor to visit the "Main Drainage Works," including the settling basins and pumping station. The city steamer "Cormorant" will leave the wharf just back of the ship "Minnesota," near the Congress street bridge, at 2 o'clock. The excursion will be very interesting. All students in engineering are invited...
...Harbor of Hong Kong," by R. C. Bolling '900; "A Stern Chase," by H. Riddell, sC., and two book notices complete the number...