Word: sans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entire tract embraces about 7000 acres in the San Jose valley, about thirty miles from San Francisco, overlooking the head of the bay and not far from Menlo Park, the country home of several prominent Californians. It occupies the rolling slopes of the low hills of one of the interior coast ranges. In addition to the immediate surroundings of the university, the plan embraces an arboretum in which it is proposed to gather the arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve...
...Prosper Bender writes on the "Holidays of the French-Canadians." Americans know so little on this subject that no one can find the article trite. "The French Colony of San Domingo," by Professor E. W. Gilliam, is especially timely as our attention is now drawn to that region. Two other interesting articles are unpublished letters by S. R. Mallory, secretary of the confederate navy in 1861, and by Richard Henry Lee, in 1782. "Francis Marion's Grave," "The Declaration of Independence," and "A trip from New York to Niagra in 1829," are among the other contributions...
...that purpose has already sent a great deal of apparatus to California. The eclipse will be visible no further east than New York state, and there only at sunset, but the line of the centre of the eclipse will pass just to the north of San Francisco...
...students of the Harvard Annex for 1888-89, come from an unusually extensive range. There are three from Honolulu, and others from San Francisco, St. Louis, Kentucky, Virginia, New York and Connecticut...
Augustus A. Crane, a recent graduate of Yale, sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu as a missionary, on Sept. 11. His station will be on the island of Mavi, ninety miles from Honolulu, between which two points there are excellent facilities for intercommunication both sailing and steam...