Word: shows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corals. There is also a careful discussion of the characteristic deep-sea animals-fishes, jelly-fish, corals, etc. A complete account is given of the development of the apparatus and of the methods employed in dredging. Several improvements were invented by Prof. Agassiz. The results of his study show that the changes of elevation have been very slow and slight, with very little disturbance of the strata, and that the eras of depositions, from the Eocene to the present time, have been marked by the same processes which, even now. may be observed in action...
...difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire did not show any zeal or interest whatever in the matter, and, when they could, sent substitutes to fill their places. The enthusiasm of the different teams cooled down considerably as the time wore away, and altogether the general verdict seemed to be one of indolent "laissez-faire." If the championship...
...full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures of the author's vivid imagination. On many of the maps animals are pictured supposed to show the species by which the region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls...
Page, the champion high jumper, has been offered $3000 a year by Buffalo Bill to give jumping exhibitions in his Wild West show...
...freshmen at Cambridge. In the game at New Haven, the splendid work of the nine has given us every reason to hope for victory. The men will feel the disadvantage of playing on foreign ground and encountering the well-known Yale enthusiasm today. Yet we want to see them show determination and steadiness from the beginning of the contest till the end, and we hope that the large contingent of Harvard that will go to New Haven with the nine will support the team in every legitimate way. With careful and sharp playing on the part of the nine...