Word: severn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...manager of the crew at the Naval School, Annapolis, has challenged the University of Pennsylvania crew to a race on the Severn above Annapolis, June 10. The Pennsylvania crew will accept if satisfactory arrangements can be made with regard to expenses. The Pennsylvania manager has written to Annapolis that there is little doubt but that the race will be rowed...
Another interesting paper is one on "Joseph Severn and his Correspondents." The correspondents are Richard Westmacott, the painter, George Richmond, the painter, and others; but the most interesting letter of the series is from John Ruskin, giving his first impressions of Venice. One quotation is characteristic and not without truth: "I saw," says Mr. Ruskin, "what the world is coming to. We shall put it into a chain armor of railroad, and then everybody will go everywhere every day, until every place is like every other place; and then when they are tired of changing stations and police they will...