Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the gifts mentioned above, books have been sent by G. C. Beals '98, of Boston; F. H. Curtis '91, of Charles River; G. T. Emmei '98, of New York; S. W. Fish '08, of New York; V. M. Fry '30, of Ridgewood, N. J.; Joseph Husband '08, of New York; L. E. Kirstein '30, of Boston; Major E. H. Litchfield '99, of New York; E. P. Merritt '82, of Boston; D. W. Robinson '90, of New York; Miss K. A. Sargent, of New York; Colonel A. A. Sprague '97, of Chicago; Mrs. F. G. Thomson, of Pennsylvania...
...British contention is that the dam, if built, would jeopardize the whole water supply of the Sudan and Egypt, the life blood of those regions; for the Blue Nile, whose confluence with the White Nile at Khartum forms the Nile, is the most important tributary of the main river...
...Caughnawaga Indian Reservation, across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal, Chief American Horse and Chief Two Axe last week stood before Indians of the Six Nations† and argued for the abandonment of Christianity. The Six Nations are a remnant, they are poor and they are despised by the whites, complained the leaders. Their present status, they said, began when the French Jesuits brought them Christianity. Of course the Indians, with little written knowledge of Canadian history, did not know that their subjection began, not with the coming of white priests, but with the appearance of white trappers, traders, merchants...
...Winslow Carlton of New York City, Charles McKim Norton of New York City, and Edward William Sexton of Winchester; for vice-president, William Temple Emmet of New York City. Thomas Gaunt Moore of St. Louis, Mo., and James Luther Reld of Somerville; for treasurer John Parkinson Jr. of Charles River Village, Henry Frederick Schwarz of Greenwich, Conn, and William Sterling Youngman Jr of Brook line...
Among the thousands who poured into the Holland Tunnel on Saturday, anxious to pass under the Hudson River for the first time, none was so stirred at the romance of the accomplished feat as would have been another man who was not there. It was decreed that the body of Clifford Holland, who planned and supervised all of the work, should have arrived in New York City from a Michigan rest cure camp on the day that the last of the river bottom barrier separating east and west tunnels was blown apart. Thus was ended the career that began with...