Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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J.D.S. Coleman, Yale '27: "Three things are needed at Harvard. Harvard needs a subway under the Charles River to Harvard Square, a new gym, and a football team...
...Business School has a peculiar need for private parking space, as no parking is allowed in the drive of the Business School grounds, nor on Memorial Drive between the School and the Charles River. Another handicap to parking is an ordinance forbidding the parking of cars on North Harvard street, between the Business School and the Stadium...
Hapgood's jovial plumpness is kept from developing into uncomfortable obesity by at least weekly workouts on the Charles in a single shell. When this turbulent river is frozen over, Dick, versatile athlete that he is, turns to fancy skating. He is a member of the Boston Skating Club and those who have seen him perform in the Boston Arena say that he cuts a mean figure...
Each college has its "barge", a houseboat where the men can change, and from which the crews normally start. The barges, numbering about 20, are moored together broadside along the river bank. His college barge will play a large part in the life of the successful carsman...
...returning from the Christmas Vacation the crews settle down in earnest to prepare for the Torpids. At this time the river is a pleasant sight, though as it can only be observed from the towingpath, and this is infested by innumerable coaches on bicycles, the uninitiate throng might think them homicidal lunatics, it is doubtful if anyone hitherto has lived to describe its beauties. There are some 40 crews to go out and each makes two journeys to Iffley, Lock in an afternoon. A the distance is not more than a mile and a quarter the river is not without...