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...California coasts. He described minutely the great storm of Thanksgiving. 1898, in which the steamer "Portland" was lost with all on board. The lecturer then passed to the actual work of the service, which in thirty years has saved $166,000,000 and 102,000 lives. The 275 stations along our coasts, he said, are conducted under military rules. Three years previous experience as a sailor or fisherman is required of applicants, who must in addition pass physical and Civil Service examinations. Mr. Peck next described the various appliances for saving life, and closed with an account of his visit...
...make the minor sports self supporting is practically the same as continuing the need of undergraduate subscriptions. The object of college athletics is to help along the physical development of the students. The minor sports certainly offer such an opportunity to a great number of men. The gross expenses for the cricket club, lacrosse team, hockey club, and fencing team, for 1901-1902 (I take this year as it is the only one for which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses...
...tickets? Why not minimize soliciting subscriptions? You ought to get your sports for less money. More of you will then take part and be interested. These things are possible by cutting the Stadium charge from $20,000 to$7,000 a year. A margin of football receipts to carry along the minor sports would still exist. Make the margin larger by reducing sundry expenses. In my day there was a good deal of extravagance. Expenses could easily have been cut twenty-five per cent. Is it not the same today...
...Farabee will leave Boston early in June. His party, limited to ten men, will meet in Edinburgh on July 8. Sailing from Scotland, they will join Professor Jaggar in Reykjavik on July 16. Together the two parties will cross to the north of Iceland and thence proceed eastward along the coast, visiting the important geysers, glaciers and volcanoes...
...began by showing a stereopticon slide of the map of Labrador, and giving a geographical survey of the coast and country over which his work extends. Then followed stereopticon views of the fjords, harbors and mountains of Labrador, showing the routes taken by the natives in their cruises along the coast. An account of the experience of the fishing vessels was illustrated by many unique pictures of salmon jumping over falls, and of the caribou and bear of the northern latitudes. He showed several slides of seal-hunting, scenes of winter travel by dog-team, and icebergs, towering far above...