Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...
...same date also published a letter from its Yale correspondent, and the discrepancies between the statements of these two letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale correspondent of the World, on the other hand, asserts that only twelve men are candidates for the crew, practice is confined...
Songs: Margaret's Cradle Song, Grieg; Sunset on the River and Safe Home at Last, Pinsuti; My Love she is a Kitten, Collier; I would I were a King, Fair Maid, Arthur Sullivan; Around the World with Grant (song with chorus), Thompson; Wandering back to the Old Home (with chorus), Gleason. Piano Music; Le Chant du Coeur, Sudds; The Mill Wheel, Boyton Smith; Polka, op. 212, Carl Faust; Heart Memories, Jungmann; Spring Flower Waltz, Himau; In Dusky Dale (four hands), Merkel...