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...largest club in New York, having 2,500 members. The N. Y. A. C. is second with...
...study is made of the schools and colleges which feed Harvard. The number of public schools is certainly increasing, and in 1890 "no fewer than 122 schools and colleges contributed the 348 persons who entered from schools and other colleges." The largest number sent by a school was 28 and only seven schools sent more than 10 pupils. In 1890 also 48 colleges and universities supplied 63 students...
Arequipa, the site of the observations, is situated on the Mollendo railway, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet, and is the second largest city in Peru. It is here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular...
...Turner group where Professor Putnam and Dr. Metz have been exploring for the past ten years: the other about twenty miles further up the river. At the former camp two ancient hearths have been found in the gravels, one of which, the "Cresson Hearth," is the largest ever found. Among the skeletons found in the graves along the valley several interesting implements have been discovered. Of some of these specimens there have never been any duplicates found. At the other camp is a very singular structure of burnt clay and stones. This had long been an object of interest. This...
...decrease was due to an assessment made necessary by reason of the business not yet being firmly established. The membership of this college year up to January, as the table shows, is largest, and numbers President Eliot for the first time as a patron...