Word: dam
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...moderate wind behind them, boats lying at ease slowly float up stream. The Schuylkill River, at Philadelphia, starting where the National races finish, and rowing up stream, is as nearly like the Henley water as any one course could be like another, and the upper Hudson, above the state dam, is very similar...
...Great Britain; ex-President. White of Cornell adds an article to the much debated question of higher instruction in America and the future of the second-class "Universities" with which the country is surfeited. John Burroughs leaves his country scenes to talk of "Faith" and "Credullty." Madame A dam and G. P. A. Healey gossip about subjects with which they are respectively less and more familiar; while Professor Shaler, who turns off magazine articles with astonishing ease, writes on "The Peculiarities of the South...