Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leland Stanford, Jr., University, which is to be to the Pacific Coast what Harvard and Yale are to the East, is rapidly nearing completion. The site of the University is a spot in the foot-hills of the Coast Range Mountains about thirty miles south of San Francisco. The grounds are several miles in extent and slightly hilly. The general plan of the new institution is a hollow oblong six hundred feet long and two hundred and fifty feet wide, leaving a quadrangle within. Around the quaprangle connecting the buildings is an arcade which will be eighteen feet high...
...Lick observatory which is now finished and ready for work marks the beginning of a new era of astronomical discovery. It is on Mt. Hamilton, about fifty miles from San Francisco, and is 4,200 feet above the sea and escapes all the heat and mists of the valleys. The climate is such that three-fourths of the year are clear and stars do not twinkle owing to the equal temperature which prevails at night at that altitude. It contains the largest and most powerful telescope in the world, and is supplied with the best apparatus and arrangements that...
...Alvin G. Clark, the celebrated lens polisher of Cambridge, has arrived at San Francisco with the photographic lens for the Lick telescope on Mt. Hamilton...
...Henry D. Cogswell has donated property worth $1,000,009 to found a technical school in San Francisco. 1t will be for both boys and girls and will be named the Cogswell Polytechnic College...
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