Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is a spirit of rivalry between Harvard and Yale "which often carries the students of both colleges to excess," but it is denied that there is a "quarrel waged with bitterness." The Harvard HERALD says that our Chambers street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...mountain grander towers...
...Charles E. Hamlin has been elected councillor on natural history for the Appalachian Mountain Club...
...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...