Word: coast
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Students in N. H. 16 are working on the U. S. Coast Survey. An area of 50 miles of the coast near Boston has been assigned to the class...
...fought in which but little blood was shed. Soon came the intelligence of the declaration of war with Mexico. Had not this precipitated matters, it is probable that the cause of the Mexicans would have been espoused by the English who had men-of-war on the Pacific Coast. Thus California was saved to the United States...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- A recent description before the Historical Society, of the "machinery" by which Mr. H. H. Bancroft carries on his investigation into the material for the history of the Pacific coast, suggests to me the application of some of the details of Mr. Bancroft's methods in the proposed plan for making and indexing newspaper cuttings according to topics. Mr. Bancroft, it is said, makes use of innumerable small paper bags, indexed by topics, and filed alphabetically, in which to store the vast mass of abstracts and quotations from books and manuscripts which he designs to use later...
...must acknowledge that tutoring is a noble calling. It is at once a life-saving and a life-sacrificing employment. To be sure, many are lost, but then how many more are saved. We are forcibly reminded of the noble exploits of our life-saving service on the sea-coast. Some day we may expect the rescued men to erect some grand memorial to the tutors...
...Observatory is built on the summit of Mount Hamilton, a prominence in the Coast Range of California, 4,400 feet above the sea-level, and about 14 miles east of the city of San Jose. The atmospheric conditions of the site are peculiarly favorable to astronomical observations, and with a good man in charge of the observatory, great results may be expected. Let us hope that an astronomor, skilled in his science and enthusiastic in his work, may be chosen for the place; for on him more than on the instruments will the reputation of the observatory depend...