Word: river
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University hockey team will leave on the 6 o'clock train today, to take the Fall River boat for New York, and will play the Columbia team at St. Nicholas Rink, New York, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The following nine men will go: Souther, Carr, Ivy, Clothier, Newhall, Wilder, Townsend, Kernan and Callaway...
...bill will be introduced in the State Senate tomorrow by Mr. D. W. Lane '94, providing for the erection of a new bridge over the Charles River at the end of Boylston street. The bridge contemplated will be a drawless structure of wood, sixty feet wide. The cost, which is estimated at $100,000, is to be divided equally between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. The height of the bridge over the channel will be twenty-six feet above mean high water, and will necessitate raising the present grade of the street...
...year's squad will row this year: Dillingham, Swaim, Duffy, Lawson, Filley, Shuebruk, Brownell, Smith, Ober, and Webster. Mr. Colson will have charge of the squad, and the work will consist of a daily drill on the machines and in the tank until the weather permits rowing on the river. With the large number of experienced men who have returned to College, and the abundance of other good material which is available, the prospects for a strong crew this year seem to be unusually bright...
Professor Davis explained the generally accepted theory for the existence of Niagara, from the point of view of the advanced scientific understanding of the last half century. He showed that the Niagara river, in producing the Falls, tumbles into a gorge which it has itself formed and which is not, as was formerly held, the result of a craking open of the earth's surface. He went on to trace the successive stages of change and development of the Great Lakes region, from the time of the last glacial period. As a result of geological changes in the various parts...
There is good skating today on Spy Pond at Arlington, Hammond's Pond at Chestnut Hill, the Arlington Reservoir, and on the Charles River at Riverside, Kendrick's Bridge, Dedham and Cow Island. The condition of the ice on the Concord River is fair...