Word: floods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, March 10.The warm weather of the past few days has sufficiently cleared the harbor of ice to permit the crews to row there Friday afternoon for the first time this year. The men went out in one of the old barges, but the flood ice, coming in with the tide, obliged them to return after an hour. The crew was coached by Armstrong and rowed as follows: Stroke, Miller; 7, Treadway; 6, Dater; 5, Cross; 4, Longacre; 3, Beard; 2, Holcomb; bow, Wheelwright. Fourteen men will go to the training table on March 15, who are, in addition...
...second petition to flood Holmes Field for a skating pond was refused by the Corporation at their last meeting. With this final decision the project will have to be abandoned...
...hundred and fifty men have signed the blue books and agreed to pay three dollars each to have Holmes Field flooded and turned into a skating pond. This number should be sufficient to make the scheme a success. There is a serious obstacle at present since the consent of the Corporation to the scheme has not yet been obtained. A petition to flood the field which was handed in by an undergraduate two weeks ago was refused. The matter was then placed entirely in the hands of Mr. H. H. White, athletic manager, who has handed in a second petition...
GYMNASIUM PHOTOGRAPHS. - Appointments made for photographing in the Carey Athletic Building a week ago are postponed another week on account of the flood on Holmes Field...
...noteworthy features of presidential campaigns at the present day are the national committees and the campaign funds. The former bear the whole brunt of the battle and conduct the grand strategy of the campaign; the latter, since money, like water, seeks the lowest level, flood the doubtful states, and have become a source of sore trouble to the sober impulses of both parties...