Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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April 30. A Visit to a Dead City in the Baltic. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Dr. Hasket Derby, of Boston...
...Watson has received an invitation to visit Oxford and see the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, which is to be held on the Thames on the 28th of this month. While there he will be the guest of Mr. Lehman, the coach of the Oxford crew. Mr. Watson leaves on next Wednesday. During his absence George S. Mumford '87 will coach the 'varsity crew...
...Professor Bailey reached the summit of Misti, an old volcano, 19,200 feet above the level of the sea. Here, with a great deal of trouble, an instrument shelter was built. It was the original plan to visit this station once in every ten days to wind the instruments there, which would run for that length of time. It was found impossible to visit Misti summit always at the interval of ten days, and now a meteorgraph has been made for the station which will run for three months...
About a week later another conference was held; this time with the principals of high schools about Boston and with the masters of the fitting schools. After a visit to the various departments and a luncheon in the library, the project of increasing the already rigorous requirements for admission was fully discussed. The masters expressed a willingness to meet the advanced requirements by instituting new preparatory courses, and the result will probably be a decided raising of the requirements for admission to the Scientific School...
Several Princeton graduates are preparing a "University Cruise" to visit the Azores, Gibralter and varous points of historic interest on the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Daily lectures will be given by professors from the leading universities in this country...