Word: crow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Engineering section of the Engineering Society met last evening in Grays 46. Papers were read by Mr. C. J. Tilden, L. S. '96, on Maps of the Government Survey, and by Mr. M. H. Wright '97, on Irrigation in the Crow Reservation. It was voted to hold a dinner at the end of the year, and a committee was appointed to make all arrangements...
...University of Pennsylvania is to have two freshman crews this season. One of these, to be known as the college freshman crew, will row against Harvard, Cornell and Columbia, in the freshman race, and the other, called the 'varsity freshman crow, will row the Annapolis naval cadets...
...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
...need for a new gymnasium at Princeton is pressing, as the present structure is much over-crow led. It is reported that a New York alumnus, whose generosity has already been shown to the college. is contemplating a gift which will give the Princeton athletic men plenty of indoor accommodations. Meanwhile a scheme is on foot to remodel the present interior...