Word: islande
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first day's play in the team matches for the intercollegiate golf championship at Garden City, Long Island, the University team was defeated by Princeton by the score of 7 to 1 1-2. Yale easily beat Pennsylvania and Columbia by the scores of 18 to 0 and 21 to 0, and will thus meet Princeton in the finals today. None of the members of the University team except T. Briggs '09 played up to their best form, and were unsteady, especially in their short game...
...tenth annual tournament of the Intercollegiate Golf Association, made up of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Pennsylvania, will begin today on the course of the Garden City Golf Club, at Garden City, Long Island. The preliminary round of the team matches will be played today and the final team match, at 36 holes, tomorrow...
...Social Service Committee has made arrangements whereby a party of not more than fifteen men will be taken to Deer Island, Boston harbor, tomorrow afternoon, to visit the Boston penal institutions. The party will meet in the Square at 1 o'clock tomorrow to take the car for Eastern Avenue Wharf, from which the steamer "Monitor" will leave for Deer Island at 2.15 o'clock. On the return the boat will reach the Eastern Avenue Wharf about 5 o'clock...
Under the charge of Dr. W. C. Farabee, of the Division of Anthropology, a scientific expedition was made to Iceland during the past summer to discover, if possible, any traces of early man on the island. The main division of the party sailed from Leith, Scotland, on July 13 and arrived at Reyjavik, the capital of Iceland, four days later. From here the start across the country was begun on the following day. Thingvellir, where the Icelandic Althing, or Parliament, assembled in the lawless days of the island's early colonization, was first visited, and from here the party proceeded...
...several parties together covered nearly 3000 miles, making a complete circuit of the island and crossing it through the interior, the main party alone travelling nearly 900 miles of the total distance. Several botanical collections were made and considerable work done in ornithology. In none of the caves or other places visited were any remains of ancient date discovered, and it was concluded from this that the island was probably not inhabited prior to its settlement by the Norwegians...