Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year; but it is inside that we find most to hold the attention. The dining-hall, like our Memorial Hall, contains quite a collection of portraits. Among them, hung over the entrance door, is a full length of Frederick, Prince of Wales, taken in 1828. Pictures of Lord Caines, Flood, Napier, Lord Kilwarden, who was dragged from his coach and murdered in the streets, long ago, and of many others. The hall itself, is long and narrow with windows high on the sides. The benches are hard but the food provided is always good. At one end is an altar...
...water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon the alarming proportion of non-swimmers and upon the desirability of giving some instruction in this useful accomplishment. The question has been discussed time and again here at Harvard. At regular intervals the college press presents its time-worn article upon the subject, each time...
...Another flood of protective pamphlets has reached the college...
...less earnest hopes for their recovery, we have every reason to feel thankful that the consequences were not even more terrible than they are. Everything seemed to conspire to make the effects of the accident as slight as possible,-the falling of the lower balcony first, the half-flood tide and the timely assistance,-and we cannot but feel the deepest gratitude to the good fortune that saved us from a most horrible calamity. Of course it is needless to urge that the injured be cared for, for they are receiving the best of attention, but we do earnestly call...
...Ohio river is subsiding, and it is believed that the greatest danger is now over. Relief for the sufferers by the flood is coming in from all parts of the country, and is being systematically distributed by associations organized for this purpose...