Word: docks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intercollegiate games will be held this year May 25 on the Berkeley oval track at Morris Dock, seventeen minutes ride from the 42d street station. The Berkeley track is one of the best in the country, being especially fast for bicycles, with its long dished up ellipse curves. It is situated on a high hill very near the Hudson. The grounds themselves are very attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees...
Among the riders entered for the races of the Berkley Athletic Club which come off tomorrow at Morris Dock on the Harlem, are Davis, Brown and Greenleaf of Harvard, and Clark of Yale. Wendell Baker, the crack sprinter, will be one of the time keepers...
...grief again Tuesday afternoon. While she was travelling along under a heavy pressure of steam in order to keep up with the crew, the connecting rod of the low-pressure cylinder broke, knocking off the cylinder head and smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon...
...reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled to the offal-dock. Alcohol has been the ruin of nearly every reptile that ever indulged in it, as well as of nearly every man; though Professor Garman assured us that in a practically air-tight jar it did not require to be changed more than once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep...
...freshmen displayed their powers against a coal passer on their tug yesterday, who attempted to pull down the '89 flag when they had reached dock. In the tussle which ensued, flag, flag-pole, and all were torn down...