Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman Dormitory Scheme" is a timely and serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school...
...race was started shortly after 2 O'clock, under the most adverse weather conditions. After a wait of some minutes in a cold drizzle of rain, the crews were obliged to contend against a head-wind, amid seas which threatened to swamp them at any moment. The oars-manship exhibited under these circumstances was creditable to both crews...
...examine well-known myocene deposits on the York River and to secure for the Department of Geology a collection of the marine fossils peculiar to this section. The party will go by train to Baltimore and thence by boat to York-town, returning by way of the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, the Richmond Coal Basin and Washington...
...party will probably start April 14 and proceed by train to Baltimore and thence by boat to Yorktown. It will return by way of the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina, the Richmond Coal Basin and Washington...
...Purgatory Swamp, led by Mr. J. G. Jack of the Forestry Department...