Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Agassiz's new book, "A Contribution to American Thalassography," supplies a vacant place in the literature of oceanic basins. The book is the result of several cruises on board the steamer "Blake" of the U. S. Coast Survey. The materials collected furnish valuable information for the study of animal life in deep water, and the conclusions arrived at cause new views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida...
...proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth of to-day. Its outlook is not eternity, but twenty-four hours; and it must needs be interested...
...being tacked on to so many institutions which smack more of the high school than the college, to such an extent indeed that the word "university" has fallen in part into ridicule, it cannot be denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys...
There is a prospect of an ocean race between the Burgess fishing schooner, Carrie E. Phillips and the Alice M. Strople for a purse...
...Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year's. It seems to me that the time has come for our Faculty to recognize in the arrangement of vacations that the United States really extends as far west as the Pacific Ocean and that men who live outside the sacred boundaries of New England have as good a right to go home for Christmas as those who live in the city of Boston. We do not ask to have the four days, which would extend our vacation to the customary two weeks...