Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intending to reach Boston by steamer. A fog closed in upon the steamer, however, and she was compelled to anchor until Tuesday noon. Finally the steamer put back in order to enable those passengers who were in a hurry to reach home to take the train and come by land.-[Gazette...
...Rupert Sargent had secured a life preserver, which he hastily adjusted to himself, but being dressed and finding the life preserver almost worthless from its flimsy character, it was difficult for him to make much headway. He was not over three-quarters of a mile from the main land, and if he determined to swim to the shore the wind and tide were against him; so he was obliged to abandon the attempt and strike out for the rocks known as the Hen and Chickens reef although they were in a very poor place for refuge and people acquainted with...
...said that the sum of thirty thousand dollars and one hundred and sixty acres of land have been pledged by the people of Mitchell to establish the University of Dakota...
...writer seems to think that the reason the college does not erect more dormitories is that it is waiting for "public-spirited friends" to do it for her. There is plenty of available land and all that is needed is the money to build with...
...will be of the greatest advantage to any who wish to become thorough practical students of economic subjects. Mr. Taussig will conduct the course on the tariff of the United States, of which he has made a special study. The other courses deal with the economic history of Europe, land tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany, and the financial systems of France, England, Germany and the United States. Harvard will thus present a more extended course of study in Political Economy than is given by any other university in the country, and the interest in economic questions will thus...