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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Work on the river has now commenced in earnest. Yesterday morning both crews, freshman and 'varsity arose at seven o'clock, took a mile walk and breakfasted. They then played ball and sat around till eleven o'clock, when they went out for their morning row. They had hardly left the float and started when the Yale launch, with Perey Boltou and Bob. Cook on board, darted out from their float and followed. They were bent on seeing what new points the Harvard men had picked up and how they rowed, but after following them for half an hour they...
...period of existence is not clear to us until we have left it. That is very often at once our sorrow and our consolation. We shall not know what this strange dear old earth has done for us until we stand on the far-off hill tops and walk by the river of the water of life. Therefore we dare to believe that the value of character and service which is behind all the lighter and weaker standards of college life is to come out more and more to college men as they go forth into the world outside...
...Norton's Field-of which only five, however, belong to the college will now be doubled by this gift, which comprises land lying on the Brighton side of the Charles River, on the upper side of the bridge, diagonally across from the Weld boat house and only eight minutes' walk from Harvard square...
...some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters by means of dumpings, so that eventually all the Longfellow land will be filled in without the expense of doing it immediately. Therefore within twenty or thirty years Harvard will possess athletic grounds within a few minutes' walk of the college of about a hundred acres in extent. These twenty acres, however, can be put into use within a few months...
...into shape, work will be begun upon the adjacent swamp land belonging to the college, and this will be gradually reclaimed, until at the end of twenty years, Harvard will have the finest athletic park in the country. These grounds, too, are within only seven or eight minutes walk of the yard, and close by the Weld boat house, which has already become a centre of attraction. When the university boat house is moved up to the new field and tennis courts and ball grounds are laid but there, the athletic interest of the college will turn as much...