Word: river
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...poems should not exceed 50 lines, and should be on one of the following subjects, chosen by the Department of English at the suggestion of the donors of the gift. "Serge Witte", "The Stadium", "Democracy", "The Charles River." Manuscripts should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with his assumed name. Competition is open only to undergraduates in the College...
...indirectly under my care a young Freshman who while hither to blameless in character had the misfortune, after some public day in Boston, to be caught in some prank, not very serious, such as the throwing of a stolen sign off the end of a bridge into the Charles River, during which lamentable misdeed, he had been arrested by the police and spent the night with his two or three companions in the lock-up. When they were called before the judge on the next morning I was allowed to make a brief statement of the case, having very little...
...three eights and a four-oar yesterday afternoon rowed upstream to the Brighton bridge and back in short stretches, and in spite of the stiff breeze blowing across the river and the choppy water, the men pulled more easily together than hitherto...
...schedule of matches is being arranged for the University team, which will probably include matches with the Fall River Golf Club, Massachusetts State Golf Association, Wollaston Golf Club, Agawam Hunt Club of Providence, and the Brookline Country Club...
...prize of $100 and a silver medal will be awarded this year for the best poem on one of the following subjects: "Serge Witte", "The Stadium", "Democracy", "The Charles River." Competition is open only to undergraduates in the College. The poems should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with his assumed name...