Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Stream-flow as an agent in generating electric power is directly dependent upon good forest-cover for its efficiency. With shade protection snow on the mountains melts gradually and feeds the streams uniformly; where there is no shade, there is a period of flood followed by a period of drought and under these conditions the efficiency of the stream flow is greatly lessened. Professor Swain will discuss the various elements in this relation...
...teams will have a rink of some sort. Yale will use its new covered rink on which the second of the series of three games with the University team will be played. Cornell will have a number of rinks on Beebe Lake near Ithaca, and Princeton will construct and flood two rinks in Princeton. Cornell will play all of its home games at the Arena in Syracuse...
...Such a flood of suggestion and advice has been poured upon the members of the Rules Committee since the end of the last season that we consider it quite unnecessary to make public now any new ideas for the reform of football. One tangible fact may be gleaned from all that has been written on the subject,--that the demand for change is general and insistent. The Rules Committee is an exceptionally competent body, and may safely be trusted to legislate only for the lasting good of the game...