Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course of his lecture Mr. Underwood will describe the life of the Maine lumbermen in their winter camps and of the river drivers in the spring, and will tell the story of a bear cub, caught near one of the lumber camps...
...practically finished, and the sluices and small boat lock on the Cambridge side will be completed before the cold weather. The Boston marginal conduit, through which all overflow from the sewers on stormy days will be carried down to tide-water instead of into the basin, is as near completion as the rest of the work will permit. In the Broad and Lechmere canals and in the basin, about ninety per cent. of the piles to support the wharves and walls have been driven, and dredging in the basin, just outside the entrance to the Broad canal, has been begun...
...University second football eleven played a tie game with Phillips Andover Academy at Andover Saturday afternoon, neither team being able to score. Andover was twice dangerously near Harvard's goal, but was held for downs the first time, and later lost the ball on a fumble. The second team was better, than its opponents on the defence, Rand and Moore doing especially good work...
...Club and twelve from the Weld. At present the Randolph and Westmorly first crews are showing the best form. In a race between these crews yesterday over the regular course, the Randolph crew gained half a length on the Westmorly boat. The bumping races will be held in the near future, so that the crews may have the advantage of the mild weather. No definite plans have been made, but the races will be conducted in much the same manner as last year...
...second team advanced the ball to the University team's three-yard line, where they were held for downs. The features of the last part of the scrimmage were the long gains made on forward passes and onside kicks, but both elevens seemed to lack striking power when near the goal lines...