Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow, if the weather is favorable, the Business School Club will take an excursion, leaving Rowe's Wharf at ten o'clock, and sailing down the harbor to the Pemberton Hotel, where the ten acre grounds have been reserved for the day. In the morning there will be various contests between first and second year men., and a chicken dinner will be served. At four o'clock the Club will return to Cambridge...
...glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once saw flying the American flag in the harbor of Rio, forty-eight were commanded by Cape Coders...
...were so suicidal that it was only a wonder that the ships lasted as long as they did. There were no fixed schedules. When news got about that some port had a lot of freight several ships would race for it. And if any ship looked in at a harbor where some unfortunate producer had perishable freight at the water front, some rascally officer might decline to take it, alleging lack of space, and then purchase the goods at bargain prices when the frantic owner tried to realize something rather than see his property rot on his hands. Ships were...
...over the various crews on Tuesday, Coach Nickals expressed himself as very well satisfied with the outlook, and in view of the advanced development of his men and of the open winter, determined to send the eights from the machines at the gymnasium to the Adee boathouse on the harbor the next day. The return of Coach Nickals has aroused enthusiasm at New Haven, where Yale is looking forward to a repetition of Nickals' wins over the University...
When the first signs of autumn come and the little steamer coming down from the North steams into the harbor at St. Anthony, volunteer nurses, nurses-aids, medical students, secretaries and students hastily pack their bags, and go down the hill to the boat. With all on board, the little boat soon steams out of the harbor. Every one, declaring it the best summer they have ever spent, waves farewell to those who remain for the winter, at the same time saying, "We'll be back again next summer...