Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what condition the elements might be in. Turning over the leaves of the record, Captain Hull said: 'Here is the record of our last run, five miles; these were always at a steady pace, improvement, not distress, being their object.' On February 20, the ice was out of the river, and work on the water was resumed, the gymnasium exercise and running being both dispensed with. Both eights were put to work again as in the fall, and on April 1 the crew, as at present constituted, was decided upon. It should be stated that all the Yale rowing...
Work on the Charles River Railroad was begun yesterday, opposite the Scientific School...
Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
Negotiations are being made for an eight-oared race with the Narraganset Boat Club, and their challenge will be recommended for acceptance by the executive committee if an agreement to a race on the Charles river before June 17th can be made. Yours respectfully...
Tuesday afternoon two boys who went to the bank of the river to shoot at glass bottles, got into a boat and were swept over Genesee falls at Rochester. The bodies have not yet been recovered...