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...trappers spoke of smoking hills, springs that spewed torrents of boiling mud and water, and cliffs of black glass. In 1870 Washburn and Hedges decided to have a look for themselves. What they saw so impressed them that they decided the region had to be preserved. On March 1, 1872, legislation establishing the 2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park-first in the country and the world-was signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. Now the National Park Service, created in 1916, administers a 31-million-acre empire likely to double in size once Congress acts to acquire additional parkland...
Earlier this year in the same regatta, the Harvard oarsmen lost to a boat of Cairo policemen. Freshman coach Ted Washburn, who is accompanying the crew on this trip has his rowers ready for revenge...
...strong field Washburn refers to will include the Eastern Regional champion Penn varsity lights, as well as Harvard's own multiple entries...
...Washburn said it will be a "classic contest" if the Harvard boats face the powerful Penn varsity lights in one of the Henley rounds...
...know about Penn," Washburn said. "But who knows? There may be lots of others even tougher than that...