Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
...have come to accept the present distribution of classes as an inevitable law, would only be a corollary to the policy of dividing Harvard College into six Houses, the occupants of which will be, not Freshmen, but Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores. With the building program being directed toward the river, future first year classes will either have to be moved to the Yard or allowed to remain in the dormitories occupied at present in acute proximity to the new Houses. Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives, the sequestration of Freshman classes in the Yard after the House plan...
...Houses in the imminent building campaign, has been made known by the University authorities, it seems that the Freshman dormitories are definitely incorporated in the plan. With one unit on the site now occupied by the power plant, one behind Gore, and another one possibly on the river front beyond McKinlock, the inference is that Smith Halls will form another House as will Standish, Gore and McKinlock combined. With the new Houses surrounding the Freshman dormitories, it certainly seems far safer to move the Freshmen to the Yard than to try to work the two systems side by side. Moreover...
...distance, the stairs, a part of the garden, seemed always to have been lying secretly at the back of her mind"-and he because of Marda Norton. Marda was leaving next day, to visit her fiance in Kent. Meanwhile she walked with Montmorency- and Lois-along the river toward a deserted mill...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...