Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second annual open intercollegiate cross country meet will be held this afternoon on the flat course along the Charles River. Teams from Harvard, Clark College, Holy Cross, Northeastern, Springfield, and New Hampshire will compete for the cup offered first last year by Dennis O'Connell '21, former Harvard track captain. The entry of five colleges besides Harvard is an increase of two over last year, when the only entries for the meet were Connecticut Agricultural College, Springfield, and New Hampshire...
...Brighton police, who have jurisdiction on the Stadium side of the river, are cooperating with C. F. Getchell, General Manager of the H. A. A. in a determined effort to wipe out ticket speculators. Three professional speculators were lately caught and fined $10 each, losing as well the tickets in their possession at the time of their arrest. Probably the only seats unoccupied during the Army and Dartmouth games were those held by the Brighton force as evidence of the unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must...
Although rain was beating down on Cambridge, Md., last week, men enthusiastically lugged into the Choptank River a one-ton steel model of the steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their...
Known to few but the most alert tourists is peaceful, rose brick, medieval Albi, high-pitched above the river Tarn in southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week...
...cross country team defeated Dartmouth Freshmen easily for its third successive victory this season by the score of 19 to 38 over the Freshman course on Charles River yesterday afternoon. R. P. Wesley '33 won the race in the good time of 17 minutes, 58 3-5 seconds, followed closely by F. D. Murphy '33, and Arthur Foote '33, just elected captain of the squad...