Word: peak
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
President Eliot formed one of a party which spent the night of April 7, at Camp Martin. This is the peak which Harvard desired to secure for the observation of the last "transit," but failed. It has since been purchased by Judge Magee and Mr. Martin, and tendered to Harvard for future observatory use. The party formally christened it "Mount Harvard...
...August the instruments on Wilson's Peak in California were sent to Cambridge for shipment to Areguipa in Pern, the location chosen for further observations. Great service was rendered the expedition by Hon. John Hicks, American minister to Pern, and Senor L. L. De Rumma of Areguipa, under whose direction valuable meteorological observations were made...
...Senate bill releasing to Harvard College and to the University of California the right of the United States to forty acres of land (for observatory purposes) at the summit of Wilson's Peak, near Pasadena, Cal., passed the Senate Saturday...