Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday after a short period of punting, the University team ran through easy signal practice. The men left Cambridge at 4 o'clock on a special car, and took the 4.50 boat train for Fall River. They will return to New York immediately after the game and spend the night at the Murray Hill hotel, leaving on the 10.03 train tomorrow morning for Boston...
...important that the coxswains study the chart of the river and observe the rules decided on by the executive committee. All bumps must be made on the outside. Each crew must keep to the inside course in rounding a curve to give the crew behind a chance to bump. A crew that disregards this rule will be considered bumped. In order to identify the crews, the coxswains will wear large numbers on their backs, indicating the positions at which they started...
Tomorrow afternoon, after a short signal practice, the squad will leave for West Point, starting from the car station on Boyston street at 4 o'clock, to connect with the 4.50 train for Fall River at the Back Bay station. A special car will be attached to this train. The team will go to New York by the Fall River line, proceed to the Murray Hill hotel, where they will have breakfast at 8 o'clock, leaving at 10.20 for Garrisons. From there they will be ferried across to West Point and have lunch at the Academy. On the return...
Work on the Charles River dam, which was begun March 1, 1905, has been continued without interruption during the summer. All the concrete work is practically finished, and the sluices and small boat lock on the Cambridge side will be completed before the cold weather. The Boston marginal conduit, through which all overflow from the sewers on stormy days will be carried down to tide-water instead of into the basin, is as near completion as the rest of the work will permit. In the Broad and Lechmere canals and in the basin, about ninety per cent. of the piles...
...Charles River Basin Commission, which has charge of all the work consists of President H. S. Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hon. H. D. Yerxa, Hon. J. B. Holden L.'71 and H. A. Miller...