Word: coast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invitation of the Princeton Alumni association of the Pacific coast the Princeton college Glee and Banjo clubs will visit and give concerts in all the large cities west of the Rocky Mountains. The men who will compose the clubs on this trip will be selected from the best Princeton singers and musicians of the last five years; the two clubs will carry on the tour twenty men. The members of the two organizations will meet in Chicago in the last week of July. From here the journey will be made in a special car in which the clubs will live...
...present navy is utterly inadequate. (a) to guard the coast; (b) to protect commerce; (c) to police the seas; (d) to uphold our dignity abroad:- Donaldson's Public Domain, p. 464, Congressional Record, vol. XV., pp. 1089-94; Nation, vol. XXXI...
...Resolved, That the United States should not materially increase its navy." The discussion was opened for the affirmative by A. H. Williams, '91; he began with a few remarks concerning the popular cry for a large navy. He defined the uses of a navy as three: to guard the coast. protect commerce, survey and police the seas. He granted that the navy of the United States in its present condition could not accomplish the first two of these things, but claimed that this is not necessary, and that our navy is sufficient for the third purpose...
...regular meeting of the New England Meteorological Society will be held today at 3 p. m., in Worcester. The following papers are expected: A. G. McAdie, "Lightning and the Electricity of the Atmosphere" ; Dr. W. D. Hodges, "Some Studies of the climate of the Massachusetts coast"; Professor W. M. Davis, "Report on the Investigation of the Sea Breeze undertaken in 1887." Desinond Fitzgerald will exhibit some diagrams illustrating evaporation...
...alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those of Maine, great coal fields, and petroleum and precious metals in abundance. The climate of the southern coast in winter is as mild as that of Virginia, and its only drawback is rain...