Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
...someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water; all the passengers cheered and laughed when the General Slocum backed into the East River...
...Ralph Muller. E. A. Stevens came from the Pacific Coast in 1924 and remained through 1925 and up to June 1, 1926, when he resigned and was succeeded by H. H. Haines. These three crews were all defeated, thus completing a stretch of six consecutive Yale victories on the river. Within the years under review, however, Harvard in 1908-1914 did exactly the same thing...
During the last 20 years, therefore, Harvard and Yale have rowed 19 races, including a two-mile race on the Housatonic River in 1918. There was no race in 1917. During this period each university won a series of six consecutive races and of the total number rowed Harvard won ten and Yale nine...
...changing nature of the way University Hall looks upon the Freshman has brought corresponding changes in the undergraduate relations with him. The segregation of the Freshman class in the river dormitories with a view of giving them what may be termed a class consciousness, a sentiment that is believed to undergo a renascence in the Senior year, has its weaknesses. One of them is that acclimatization comes slowly. There has been a corresponding growth in importance of the service rendered by the student advisory board...