Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received several communications on Spring, but, believing the majority of our readers to be sufficiently well acquainted with its features, we have thought it superfluous to print them. The ice in the river has broken up, and, the floats being out, rowing is now in order. This is a genuine indication of warmer weather...
...Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability would have a crew on the river in the spring. As nearly every one of the speakers had alluded in one way or another to the "Ball Interest," Mr. N. W. Perry found the subject rather exhausted when he rose to respond to the toast. He recapitulated the record of the Nine, however, and said that he attributed...
...WATSON, '75, has kindly consented to coach the Freshman crew as soon as the river opens...
...culture, and this, together with the new projects in this regard of late agitated among the students, will undoubtedly lead to a better state of things. They recommend the erection of a new gymnasium, and even go so far as to suggest the purchase of marsh lands on Charles River, to be drained and diked in the interests of out-door sports. It is also proposed that the College, by the erection of boat-houses, encourage this branch of athletic exercise among the many. Before closing this review, I cannot refrain from noticing the high and elevating view taken...
...however, are not given, and we are left to conjecture how often the water would be changed and the tank washed out, and whether it would be kept warm in the winter or allowed to freeze up, to serve as a skating rink. It is doubtless true that "Charles River is no longer fit to bathe in, because of the sewage which is discharged into it, and there are no public baths which are accessible to the students," and it is perhaps advisable that the College should undertake to furnish the facilities we lack. We would suggest, however, that there...