Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large and convenient hall, well furnished with dumbbells, chest-weights, horizontal and parallel bars, flying rings, rowing machines and other apparatus. Regular exercise is required of all the students, who are arranged in groups according to strength and individual needs. Outdoor sports are very popular. On the shore of Lake Wabau the visitor can see the boats used by the various crews, and may perhaps see the strong and graceful "oars-women" as they take their places in their boat and glide over the lake. Dr. Holmes' may have written with prophetic insight when he described in "A Mortal Antipathy...
...Inter-Collegiate Rowing Association, comprising Brown, Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, will row their annual race in July, on Lake George...
...Harvard programmes still apply to the inter collegiate team the ridiculous name "Mott Haven." We are informed that hereafter the Harvard crew which rows against Yale at New London next July will be called the "Winnipiseogee Crew," because the Harvard-Yale race was rowed on that euphoniously named lake. - Spirit of the Times...
NATURAL HISTORY. 1. The Mound-builders. 2. Theories of glacial motion. 3. The Lake Dwellers. 4. Is Natural selection the sole cause of Evolution? 5. The Colors of Autumn Leaves. 6. The tension of vegetable tissues. 7. The effects of light on Plants. 8. Can disease-germs be distroyed by the so-called disinfectants...
There is a Harvard colony in Lake county, California. These graduates are devoted to grape growing. The San Francisco Chronicle says that the native's look with wonder upon the oarsmanship of the Cambridge colonists...