Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring regatta of the Yale navy will be held at Lake Saltonstall on Saturday, May 18. The junior class has this year a very strong crew, including Harrison and Newell, substitutes on the university crew, and James, who was a substitute on last year's crew. The sophomores are very weak, so that the race will be between the juniors and freshmen. The latter crew is exceptionally heavy...
There were four routes proposed for the canal-the southern route; the route by Panama; the ship railway, and the canal through lake Nicaragua. It was found that the southern route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan...
...principal advantage the Nicaragua canal possesses over its rivals is that it is aided by the nature of the land about it. Through ninety miles of its length it flows through the lake of Nicargua where little or no dredging will be required...
...number of Yale sophomores have gone into training for a four-oared barge race to take place on Lake Whitney...
...number contains several other very interesting articles on out-door sports, notably the paper on "Fast Ice Yachts; how they are built, rigged and hauled," by C. L. Norton, and "The Lake Champlain Yacht Club," by T. G. Mather. Walter C. Camp of Yale has an article on "Hints to Foot-Ball Captains," which contains some clear and interesting advice from the greatest football authority in the country. The other papers are all very readable, though of less particular interest to college men. The illustrations are good, especially the copies of the photographs of the lacrosse team and shooting club...