Word: seene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior class, and practically the same questions, modified where circumstances require it, will be mailed to other colleges and to secondary schools all over the United States. Each member of the Seminary has a certain section of the country to investigate, and the thoroughness of the work will be seen by the fact that about 10,000 letters will be sent...
...plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under it deposited sand in great quantities as they approached the sea. These rivers flowed through ice arches under the glaciers; and remnants of them can still be seen in the low curving hills in some parts of the state. At the same time, it is worth remembering that we have near by all that is left of a mountain range, once as grand as any in the word, in the White Mountains and in detached peaks such as Monadnock...
During the spring of 1861, a visitor in Cambridge might frequently have seen companies of Harvard men drilling on the Delta where Memorial Hall now stands. They were there because the country was in need of help; because every brave man was eager for a part in the work that had to be done; and it' in memory of those who bore their p at the cost of life that we meet here...
...Cambridge Observatory. Visually with five-inch telescope, the corona resembled that of the '89 eclipse. Two large solar protuberances were noted. Our polar filaments six seconds in diameter traced the corona about one degree. The shadow of the moon on the sky and shadow bands were well seen. Venus and Mercury were conspicuous. The inner corona was visible in the telescope some seconds after totality was over. There was no dark band around the moon's limb during the partial phase and no detail on the moon during totality...
...thought you might be pleased, or at all events interested, to learn that at least one Harvard man is fighting with the British out here. Your humble servant belongs to the first Canadian contingent and has seen considerable scrapping so far with Steyn and Oom Paul's legions, but thus far has been unhurt, I must try to attend my next class dinner (D. V.) and compare notes with my classmates who have fought the Spaniards and Filipinos. You ought to see me now in tattered, soiled khaki uniform, nearly as brown as a Negro and as tough...