Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...KEYES.BICYCLE CLUB. The following runs will be taken by the club, weather permitting, Wednesday, Oct. 14, to Middlesex Falls, starting at 3 o'clock. Monday, Oct. 19, a short moonlight run around Chestnut Hill Reservoir, followed by a business meeting and smoker at 4 Thayer. Start will be made at 7.45. Thursday, Oct. 22, a run to Auburndale, with supper at Woodlawn Park Hotel and return by moonlight. The secretary will be glad to meet at his room, 28 New Hilton, all members of the university wishing to join the club...
...well as the streets will allow, until Tufts College of renown appears on a not very distant summit straight before us. This famous institution once sighted, we must not fail to climb the hill and get the view. The first thing however to attract our attention will be the reservoir, which is confidently close to the college buildings. The swimming tank which so many Harvard men have longed for in Cambridge is here provided by civil authority for the benefit of the Tufts men. As we walk about the reservoir, let us take in the view. Look down into...
...Lind, '88, were sent off by the timekeeper, Mr. F. Remington, '87. Seven minutes later the hounds eleven in number, with Brandt, '85, the master of hounds at their head, started in pursuit. The scent lay across the common, up Concord Avenue, over fields and fences near the Cambridge reservoir, and then along the south end of Fresh Pond. Once or twice the scent was badly scattered and some delay ensued. The trail finally led around Fresh Pond toward the north, past the brick yards in North Cambridge, and down the Fitchburg railroad track until the bags were found...
...again farther on owing to the badness of the scent and the ingenious lying of an Irishman an equal amount of time was lost. After about five miles of the course had been covered the scent improved. The course lay through Brookline and Jamaica Plain to Chestnut Hill reservoir. Here Mr. Matthewson and Mr. Norton made up their handicap but again the scent was lost and the other hounds caught up again. The hounds just beyond the reservoir broke for home. Norton led till beyond Allston with Matthewson and Slocumb just behind. It was then so dark that...
...Watertown, thence to West Newton, on to the junction of Beacon and Washington streets, very near Newtonville. Here the hounds were encouraged by learning from the relay who joined them that the hares were hardly five minutes ahead of them. The road thence through Newton Centre to Chestnut Hill Reservoir was perfect in all respects, and good riding was done by the hounds, that of Messrs. White and Maverick being especially good. At the reservoir the scent was lost, and fully three minutes were consumed before it was found again. Once more before reaching the finish the whole body...