Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad comp, a narrow comp or a single. A list of sculling rules is posted in both boat-houses and all men should familiarize themselves with them. Moreover all beginners are reminded that they must pass a swimming test at the Big Tree Pool before going out on the river...
...type of publication made possible by these awards is just as vital to Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially...
Hero Moseley. The "Big River" or Rio Grande is part of the frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...
Hurrying across the International Bridge General Moseley intervened between the Federalistas and Insurrectos, and arranged that the former, hopelessly outnumbered, should evacuate Juarez, retire across the International Bridge and submit to internment at Fort Bliss. Firing was stopped on the basis of this agreement; some 350 federals crossed the river and were interned...
...crews until now have been staging short races, each lasting about two minutes, among themselves. There is a possibility, however, that there will be a longer race today on a straight stretch up the river...