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...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...
...excellent editorial on the Union, other editorials on the Advocate's plans for the year, four poems and a number of prose articles make up the first number of the Advocate, which appeared last night. "Morning on the Swamp," by Roy Pier, is a vivid piece of poetical description, marked by simplicity and no little beauty. "Sunlight," another poem,--unsigned--is well and pleasingly phrased. "Summer Songs," by A. D. Ficke, seems rather carelessly put together, and the effect of a number of good lines is offset by commonplace phrasing and halting rhythm; as a whole...
...Indians ran along the western border of the present Yard, and at the corner of Harvard square was a hill on which a sentry watched continually. The College woodpile was on the site of University Hall and the field on which Sever Hall was built was a swamp and huckle-berry patch. There were several wooden buildings on the hill by the square of which Wadsworth House still remains...
...four-oared shells were rowed Saturday afternoon under the most unfavorable conditions possible. By the time scheduled for the start a strong head wind had arisen, blowing somewhat off the wall on the Beacon street side, and the basin was lashed into a high running sea, which threatened to swamp the boats at any minute. It was almost dark when the crews after much maneuvering finally managed to get into position. Crew No. 4, J. F. Perkins '99, captain had the course nearest the wall; crew No. 3, H. M. Adams '98, captain, was next; crew...