Word: bird
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Were I a little bird...
...Princeton university crew was chosen Saturday, as follows: Bow, Green, '85; No. 2, finney, '84; NO. 3, Harris, '85; No. 2, Finney, '84; No. 3, Harris, '86; stroke and captain, Bird '85. the second crew will consist of: Bow, Kempshall, '85; stroke, B. Smith, '85. The two crews are in training for the first races, which will be at Newark, on May 30th and 31st. On the Harlem the second crew will contest junior crews. The crews are under the training of George Hosmer...
...following men have been selected at Princeton form the university four: Bird, '85, captain and stroke; Harris, '86; Finely, '84; Green, '85; Smith, '85; Mumford, '85; Evans, '84; and Hempshall, '85. The first four men will probably form the crew...
...Then he seems to come all at once with a whoop and a yell. Whence he comes, and whither he goes, no man can tell. Several ingenious theories have been propounded but none of them adequately answer the question. It has been claimed that he is a species of bird that flies away South for the winter and comes back with his race when it becomes warmer. This theory in a most beautiful manner accounts for his semi-miraculous appearances and disappearances, but it leaves quite unanswered several physical and aesthetic problems, which are very obvious to the observer...
...French travel papers, this time describing Avignon and Orange. Prof. Shaler discusses "The Red Sunsets" and their probable cause. Oliver T. Morton, son of the late Senator Morton of Indiana, writes about "Presidential Nominations;" Maria Louise Henry contributes a sketch of Madame de Longueville. Bradford Torrey has an interesting bird article, entitled "Phillida and Coridon;" while the Contributors' Club has some delightful extracts from a "Rhymed Letter" by James Russell Lowell, not included in his volumes...