Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their first out-door work it was found that Talcott at three was better than Cabot at number 7 and so the two changed places. This was found satisfactory and the stayed thus for some time. In the beginning of April weather conditions favored their returning to the river and this they did, holding regular practice until they went down to race the Princeton oarsmen in the Easter vacation. In one of the closest races seen in this country, as Professor Noyes put it: "A most extraordinary race," they lost by 6 inches. The result of this contest...
There is an excellent chance for a time row tomorrow, provided the conditions on the river are good...
...where the exercises and the masque are to be held is 360 feet square and the smaller ones 165 feet square. The library is crowned by a dome similar to that of the Pantheon in Rome, which rises 180 feet above the court or nearly 200 feet above the river...
...galley which will take a central part in the Technology pageant has reached Boston and is now anchored in the Charles River Basin. It is named the Bucentaur and is patterned after the stately Venetian galleys of old. It was built expressly to take part in the water festival in connection with the opening of the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings next Wednesday...
...sides, presented a most unusual spectacle, attracting the attention of everyone along the water front, as she moved up the harbor in tow of the Gloucester tug Eveleth. Off East Boston flats the tug Edwin L. Pillbury relieved the Eveleth and towed the galley up the Charles River, through the drawbridges to the basin where it was moored off the Technology buildings. The bridges on the Charles were crowded with people and another throng watched the odd-looking craft from the North End Park...