Word: surveyed
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President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, ecturing before the Geographical Society, recently recommended three undertakings in which he suggested the Society should take an active part : A topographical survey of the United States; an institute of geography, with library, charter, etc.; and a monument to Columbus, to be erected at the Golden Gate, facing the Orient from the Western shore...
Captain Shaw, of the London Fire Brigade, has made his report, after a survey of some eight of the London theatres, and so strong is the condemnation, and so vast the alterations proposed, that the Board of Works decline to deal with the matter, and have referred it to the Home Secretary...
Librarian Winsor has completed a "List of the Most Useful Reference Books," which appears in the current number of the University Bulletin. "A List of Maps (1855 to 1881)," by R. Bliss, Jr., of the U. S. Geological Survey, and "A List of American Authors in Geology and Paleontology," by Professor J. D. Whitney, also appear in the same number...
From a brief survey of the base-ball arena, it would seem that the college contest of '82 would be the most closely contested ever known. Every nine is in training, and each will appear on the field with a new pitcher. - [Brunonian...
...canal projects have been brought before Congress : One, to construct a channel from the Hudson along the Harlem river to the outer edge of Randall's Island; the other, to authorize a survey for a ship canal from Toledo to the lower points of Lake Michigan...