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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Top, GALES FERRY, June 8.--After Sunday's rest the University eight went over the four-mile course for a time row this afternoon with tide and a slight wind in their favor, and covered the course in 22m. 30s., about the same time as on Saturday. This morning the University and Freshman eights had a brush for half a mile in rough water, and the Freshmen won by about a length. In paddling down to the mark to start for the time row this afternoon, the University crew showed much better form than they have...
...TOP, GALES FERRY, June 7,--Saturday was a lively day for the Harvard and Yale boatsmen on the Thames...
...leave the Square at 2.20 o'clock this afternoon and will take the 3.04 o'clock train from the Back Bay station for New London, where they will arrive at 5.40 o'clock. The launch "John Harvard" will meet the men on their arrival and carry them to "Red Top" in time for a short row before dinner. Both the University and Freshman shells were sent to New London last night and will be rigged today by Hart and Lynch, the Newell and Weld boat-builders, so as to be ready for use this afternoon...
...Museum. It is an ancient stone grave, dug up at Kimmswick, about 20 miles from St. Louis. The grave is constructed of six slabs of limestone, and is hardly three feet long, and about two feet deep. In the grave are two male skeletons. The skulls were placed on top of the other bones, and between them was a pottery fool vessel. The whole has been reconstructed by Mr. D. I. Bushnell, Jr., who, with Mr. W. C. Farabee, found the grave during a joint expedition from the Peabody Museum and the University of California...
...bill the dam is to be erected at about the site of the present Craigie Bridge. It will be strong enough to withstand all tides and sufficiently high to maintain in the basin above a permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base. The top of the dam is to be at least 100 feet in width, part of this space being set aside for a highway. Provision is also made for a large lock connecting the two levels of the river...