Word: sea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday next President Eliot sails for Egypt, going direct by sea all the way. His trip is entirely for rest and pleasure and he will be absent about three months...
Camera Club.Last evening the Harvard Camera Club gave an exhibition of a set of English lantern slides, the prize set of 1892. There were also a few slides from Albany and Portland, besides many foreign views. The portraits and a few of the sea views were especially fine. There was a large audience, which showed itself thoroughly appreciative...
...exhibit comprised views of sea and land in all seasons. The negatives from which the slides were taken, were made by thirteen members of the club; Professor de Sumichrast. Rumford, Sharples, Fisk, Olmstead, Glessner, Holmes, Holbrook, Stevens, Cummings, Frothingham, James and Vaughan; the slides themselves were the work of P. P. Sharples '95 and C. P. M. Rumford '97. The pictures which took prizes last year were exhibited, and the quality of the whole was distinctly above the average of slides sent to the club during the past winter...
Harvard, he explains, has two stations. One is at Arequipa, eight thousand feet above the sea; the other at El Misti, nearly twenty thousand feet above the sea. In the lower station are all the valuable instruments and the headquarters of Professor Bailey, who is in charge of the astronomical work. In the upper station recording instruments of far less cost are placed, and these are visited once in each ten days by one of Professor Bailey's assistants. At such an elevation, no human being could remain and live; but the results, already obtained under the necessary conditions, have...
...barrows and some on hill-tops which were consequently believed to be peopled with spirits. Probably the latter custom was not without influence in forming the idea of a heaven above. A very prevalent belief was that of a migration of the dead, along a river or beyond a sea, usually to the East or West; for men of imaginative natures standing on the shore of the ocean could see in the brilliant clouds of sunset and dawn, the capes and headlands of a fair land beyond. These beliefs may well be seen in some ancient Irish literature...