Word: river
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
...college has been steadily growing. From present accounts the affairs of the club are in a very prosperous condition; and the boat house bids fair fully to accomplish the purposes for which it was given to the college-to furnish more men a chance to exercises on the river and in this way to strengthen our boating interests. One evidence of the development of men and interest is the goodly number of entries for the scratch races to be held tomorrow. Take it all in all, the affairs of the club seem to be "booming." The most welcome thanks which...
...number of canoeists, who are members of the B. A. A. are contemplating a canoe trip down the St. John's River...
Monday morning as a large dredge was going up the river it drifted across the bow line of the 'varsity launch thus pulling the rope so tight that the launch was overturned. It immediately filled with water and sank. The the dredging company put men at work Monday night and at low tide the launch was raised, Pumped out, and was ready for crew practice yesterday afternoon. The accident happened at a very unfortunate time as Perkins, captain of the '84 crew, had come up from New York to aid in coaching the crew and without the launch he could...
...government. "Where are Vinland and Norumbega?" by Alice L. Clark is an article that will interest all men who have ever paddled a canoe or rowed a boat on the turning and twisting Charles above Riverside and noticed the lonely stone tower on the left bank of the river. Miss Clark comes to the conclusion that indications of the lost Norumbega are such stuff as dreams are made...