Word: los
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stories, what should be but certainly is not the most interesting to a Harvard man is Frederick J. Stimson's "Los Caraquenos." It is altogether too long and is tiresome...
...University of Southern California is soon to have the largest telescope in the world; it will be mounted on Mt. Wilson near Los Angeles...
...Hutchins, of Los Angeles, "The Reaction of India Upon England...
While President Eliot was in California in Los Angeles, he visited, with several other gentlemen, as the guests of Mr. Raymond, the excursionist, Mt. Wilson. The trip occupied two days and was made partly by coach, partly on broncho-back. Connected with Wilson's peak by a narrow ridge is a mountain, which Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site...
...preparatory school there. Next he visited Bryn Mawr College, Washington University, of St. Louis, Denver, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Leaving Colorado he went directly to California. He spent about two weeks in San Francisco and around San Francisco Bay. Thence he went to Southern California, visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Redlands, and San Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory and saw the fine...