Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with a trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential...