Word: mounting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Claflin the manager of Harvard's 85 champion team, gave a supper to the members of the nine at his residence on Mount Vernon street last week...
Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. John Orne. Subject: The Druses of Mount Lebanon. 7 Lowell...
...good work, which has been cordially recognized both at home and abroad. With the coming year a new era begins. We are henceforth to have a home of our own. The government of Greece has shown such warm interest in our enterprise, that a valuable piece of land on Mount Lycabettus, containing about an acre an a half, has been granted to the School by a royal edict, issued July...
...years ago Mr. James Lick of California donated $700,000 for the purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected...
...over the Cambridge lines, an enormous crowd of business men, students and strikers gathered on Harvard square; but the latter were in a decided minority. At nine o'clock a bell rang in the stables and a chocolate colored Bowdoin square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however...