Word: sea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wilfred T. Grenfell, ex-captain of the Oxford, England, football eleven, now medical missionary to the deep-sea fishermen of the North Sea and Labrador, will speak at the meeting of the Christian Association in Holden Chapel at 6.45 this evening. While captain of the eleven Dr. Grenfell was converted by Mr. Moody. After studying medicine under Sir Andrew Clarke, the eminent physician, he went out in 1892 to give his life to the work for fishermen. As Dr. Gren fell has had a remarkable experience, he should be of especial interest to college men. All members of the University...
...historical sketch of the spread of the doc rine of the immunity of private property at sea and a discussion of its tendency to promote peace...
...have received from the Lippincott Company, Publishers, "Captain Gore's Courtship," the last number of the "Lotos Library." It is an entertaining story of the sea by Mr. T. Jenkins Hains...
...Sketches: "Concerning Jenkins," and "A Burial at Sea," Guy Scull...
...excellent stellar charts of which some very fine specimens have been received in Cambridge. The main station at Arequipa controls many meteorological posts in the neighboring country. The most important of these is situated on the summit of the volcano El Misti, 19200 feet above the level of the sea. At this high post there has recently been set up an automatic meteorograph which runs without care for months at a time. This records the direction and velocity of the wind, and registers continuously the barometric pressure, the temperature, and the humidity of the atmosphere...