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...Real Trench on View...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bazaar Plans Bewildering | 12/2/1916 | See Source »

...When we first entered the long communication-trench, things seemed pretty quiet. Only a shot and an explosion at long intervals could be heard. We had travelled along the communication trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...well recently discovered near Boylston Hall by workmen who were building water pipes leading through the district, has proved a most interesting find. The men were constructing a long, deep trench to lay piping that should carry water from the street to Wadsworth House. As they were working, just beyond the path which leads through the Yard, opposite Boylston Hall, they came upon what they at first thought, to be a cavity where old piping foundations had been. Upon further investigation it proved to be a round well whose sides were carefully built of stone and had apparently lasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Well an Interesting Discovery | 6/16/1915 | See Source »

...entitled "The Genesis of the Public Land System of the United States"; the Bennett Prize, of $40, to R. E. Goodwin '01 for the essay entitled "American Shipping and Shipping Subsidies"; the Sales Prize, of $45, to A. E. Goddard '02, for the translation of a passage from Archbishop Trench's "Calderon"; the Bowdoin Undergraduate Prize in Latin, of $50, to A. H. Rice '01; the Bowdoin Graduate Prize in Latin, of $100, to F. W. Doherty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award of Prizes. | 6/20/1901 | See Source »

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