Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Much time has been spent by the party in making detailed observations of various claims of volcanic islands, their general course and features being noted by soundings where the crests are below the surface. Many data have been gathered which prove that these island groups were formerly connected.
M. de Regnier will give this afternoon at 4.30 in Sanders Theatre his fifth lecture on Modern French Poetry. His special subject will be "The New School of Poetry." Admission will be by ticket only till 4.25 when the doors will be opened to the public.
The University of New York has received an anonymous gift of $100,000.
A prize bat has been offered by an anonymous donor to be given for the highest batting average obtained by a member of the baseball squad this year.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been appointed literary executor of the late Mr. John Ruskin. Mr. Ruskin and Professor Norton were very intimate and had known each other for almost fifty years. Professor Norton will go abroad for a month or more next summer to look over the literary remains...