Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather this year seems bound to keep the men indoors, for the drop in temperature on Saturday night dashed the hopes of getting on the river soon. The dates which the first crews have been on the river in recent years are as follows: 1912, March 14; 1913, March 4; 1914, March 9; 1915, February 16. Thus if this year's crew succeeds in getting out within ten days the date will be well up with average. Last year's date was phenomenal, so there is no reason to be discouraged at present conditions...
...land on which the Freshman dormitories now stand was once a part of the river. But gradually the shore was built out as an ash-heap, so that all the land within one hundred and fifty feet of the river is now made up mostly of ashes. Large wooden piles were uncovered by the workmen last fall when they were taking out the old trees from this land. These piles were foundations of gas wharves at which coal barges used to unload...
...Military Curios"; Rudyard Kipling, "France at War"; Princess Hrebebanovich Lazarovich, "Memoirs"; Stephen Leacock, "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy"; Walter Lippman, "The Stakes of Diplomacy"; R. C. Long, "Colours of War"; Lucien Lord, "Leaves from the Signal Elm"; C. Maspero, "Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt"; E. L. Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"; W. B. Munro, "A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States"; F. S. Oliver. "Ordeal by Battle"; E. R. and J. Pennell, "Lithography and Lithogarphers"; Ernest Poole, "The Harbor"; Richard Pryce, "David Penstephen"; Annual Register, 1914; Upton Sinclair, editor, "The Cry for Justice"; Ellery C. Stowell, "The Diplomacy...
...machines and in the tanks. The men first are given individual instructions by Coach Haines, and then have a final row in the tank through which is kept a continuous stream of water. Furthermore, the oars are perforated and these two arrangements make the work as nearly like the river as is possible under the present circumstances...
Both armies have been brought up to war strength with startling rapidity. They are at present approaching the Charles River from different angles, and it is expected that they will clash at Stadiumrink some time this afternoon, probably about 3.30, weather permitting...