Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunities for out-of-door sports will be unequalled. All students will have the use of the extensive athletic grounds immediately adjoining the gymnasium, and the boat-house accommodations on the river...
Four enterprising freshmen have purchased a barge and are practising daily on the river. There is some talk of entering them in the intercollegiate regatta at Lake Quinsigamond...
While rowing on the Quinnipiac river Friday afternoon, a short distance below the third railroad bridge, the boat of the Yale Freshmen ran on a submerged stake which broke a large hole in the bottom and caused the boat to sink immediately. The crew went on foot to the boat-house and returned in the barge to their shell which they towed down the river. The accident is similar to that which befel the sophomore crew this spring. The shell likewise is so badly injured that it will probably be useless...
...regard to the new bridge which is to be constructed across the Charles river from West Chester Park in Boston to Front street in Cambridge, General Hazard Stevens has written a letter in which he expresses some very sensible opinions. He says that the plan prescribed by the law, which provides for a low, flat structure without any ornamental features is not worthy of two such growing cities as Boston and Cambridge. The bridge proposed would be unsuitable for the broad river basin which is soon to be surrounded by a series of parks. The bridge should...
...followed the bill from the estimates of the engineers and the Secretary of War through the committee on rivers and harbors, and then into the House. He described the debate and the filibustering, and the trick by which the bill passed without amendment. It was largely increased in the Senate, and finally settled in the conference committee. He then discussed what he called the moral character of the bill. It was not extravagant in comparison with previous bills, but it contained many items which were plainly for local improvements in unknown places. He showed a map on which...