Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern...
Geological Conference. Paper: Observations of Glacial Phenomena, past and present, in Greenland, Baffin Land and Labrador. (Illustrated with the stereopticon.) Professor G. H. Barton, of Mass. Inst. of Technology. Geological Lecture Room, Ground floor...
Geological Conference. Paper: Observations of Glacial Phenomena, past and present, in Greenland, Baffin Land and Labrador. (Illustrated with the stereopticon.) Professor G. H. Barton, of Mass. Inst. of Technology. Geological Lecture Room, Ground floor...
...Corporation for the improvement of Soldiers Field will be spent chiefly in filling in and altering the sub-soil. The wetness of the field which has caused so much trouble is due to the character of the ground, which in places consists of heavy clay and marsh land...
...could use the income of additional endowments to the amount of ten millions of dollars for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants." It seems a direct reproach to the many rich Harvard graduates, of which Harvard has more probably than any other university in the land, that it should suffer so severely for the means to carry out the plans so wisely and broadly conceived to make it a complete university, doing the most that it is capable of in the field of education...