Word: islande
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Glen Cove, Long Island, Oct. 15, 1907.--In the first day's play in the team matches for the intercollegiate golf championship at the Nassau Country Club, Long Island, the University team was defeated by Yale by the score of 13 to 6 1-2. Princeton easily beat Pennsylvania 9 1-2 to 2 1-2. The first pair in was a surprise, for Wilder of Harvard finished 6 up over Abbott of Yale who was intercollegiate champion...
...intercollegiate golf championship, at the Nassau Country Club, Long Island, will begin today and last the remainder of the week. On the first and second days, the team match championship will be decided, and on the three remaining days the individual championship. On Thursday a qualifying round will be played in the latter competition, and in the afternoon the first round of match play. On Friday will come the second and semi-final rounds of match play, and on Saturday the final at 36 holes...
Several Harvard men were enrolled at the regular session of the Bermuda Biological Station which extended last summer from June 21 to August 7. The new station is located on Agar's Island, near the entrance to Hamilton Harbor. This island contains about three acres of land, and has numerous substantial buildings. It was formerly used by the British government for the storage of ammunitions of war, and for the accommodation of the necessary garrison. It has been secured by the Bermuda History Society for the purposes of a public acquarium and a station for biological research...
...members of the senior class of the Institute of Technology accompanied Professor Jaggar. The results of their investigations are to appear later in the Technology Quarterly. The party visited all the islands of the Aleutian chain from Unimak Pass to Atka. It was found that the island of Bogoslof was one of the wonders of volcanology. This island volcano is northwest of the peninsula of Alaska. It first appeared as the result of an eruption in 1796, and it has been more or less active ever since...
...islands are inhabited by a rapidly decreasing half-civilized race with many virtues, but the usual aboriginal weaknesses. On the island of Omimak is a ruin of a large town, the inhabitants of which were slain by Russian sailors in 1830. There are 150 islands in the group, each exhibiting violent internal commotion, volcanoes still active, and numerous hot volcanic springs...