Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, which is to be rowed tomorrow over the Putney-to-Mortlake course on the Thames, has not excited as much attention in this country this season as during some previous ones - possibly because in former years the ocean cable thrilled for a week or two beforehand with daily details of the betting on this event and the condition of the rival crews. Yet, according to all indications, the race will be as exciting and closely contested as any that has been rowed for several years. Nobody, at any rate, expects, barring accidents, that...
...steamship Glamorgan of the Warren line of Boston was wrecked in mid-ocean on the 16th inst., her captain, second officer and five other persons being lost. Forty-four of the crew were rescued by the steamer republic and arrived in New York Saturday...
...medical college in Chicago, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, has been sued, according to the Inter-Ocean, by a student who allege that he was promised a graduate's diploma at the end of one year's study. The faculty declined to carry out the pledge, and offer in defence the evidence that an individual member of the corps of teachers made the promise, and furthermore that the agreement for this brief term of study was not in accordance with the regulations of the State board of health. The question at once arises how long a doctor who would...
...attempt was made to sink the ship John S. Shenney in mid ocean, by boring auger holes in her bottom. The second mate is suspected...
...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...