Word: river
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard College stands beyond the river Charles, looking at Bunker Hill and Boston. It is the boast of Boston; yet it were better for the life and morals of Boston that it were under the sea, or three hundred miles away in the woods of Maine. The day has been when Harvard produced giants-scholars, statesmen, soldiers and patriots; but that is only a tradition now. Harvard is simply a training school for the sons of the rich, a place where wealth is honored and glorified, where the rich man's son is taught his own importance and the dignity...
...credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American, it would be unnecessary to say that there is no approach to the truth in any statement we find there, save in that which tells that Harvard stands beyond the River Charles, looking at Bunker Hill and Boston...
...Borden '96, of Fall River, Mass., quarterback, was substitute quarterback of his freshman eleven and quarterback of his class team his sophomore year. Began last season on the 'varsity squad but had to give up by reason of a broken collar bone. Is sharp and alert and plucky, but lacks judgment at times. Age 20, height 5 ft. 7 in., weight...
...miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread out by the wash of ice-water from the margin of the glacial sheet. This plain slopes to the sea-shore, where a number of lagoons are enclosed by off-shore, wave-built barrier...
...Borden '96, of Fall River, Mass., quarterback, was substitute quarterback on his freshman eleven and quarterback of his class team his sophomore year. Began last season on the 'varsity squad but had to give up by reason of a broken collar bone. Is sharp and alert and plucky, but lacks judgment at times. Age 20, height 5 ft. 7 in., weight...