Word: basin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race at noon on next Saturday, the 29th. It was found by the boat club that to expect men to train for a mile race now, amid the important competitions for the class and table football teams, was too much, and the course has been changed from the basin to the short one in front of the boat house, from bridge to bridge, if the tide will allow. The entries were to have been closed last night; but as only sixteen names are down, the book will remain at Bartlett's until ten o'clock tonight (Thursday...
...which he expresses some very sensible opinions. He says that the plan prescribed by the law, which provides for a low, flat structure without any ornamental features is not worthy of two such growing cities as Boston and Cambridge. The bridge proposed would be unsuitable for the broad river basin which is soon to be surrounded by a series of parks. The bridge should not be for merely useful purposes, but also for an ornament and a pride to future generations. It should be sufficiently high to allow the passage of tugs and barges underneath. It should have some memorials...
...head and neck of a bull. Each man has his second - also partially protected by padding - who stands close by him on the left, with a blunt sword in his hand. Between the two, but at a safe distance, stands the umpire. Just behind is an attendant with a basin of water, a sponge, and a chair, while the doctors hover round the group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight...
CANOE CLUB. - The fall regatta will be held to-morrow on the Charles River Basin. Two races will be contested; one set at 11 o'clock, a class B unlimit-sailing race over a three mile triangular course; the other a limited sail area race for class B canoes. First and second prizes to consist of silk banners are offered for each race...
CANOE CLUB. It is important that all who wish to join the Canoe Club this spring should do so at once. The Spring Regatta will be held on the Tower Basin of the Charles in about two weeks. Probably no other meeting of the club will be held before the regatta, and all new men who wish to become active members and take part in the races, or to become associate members and enjoy the privileges of the club at the regatta, should send their names to Theodore Dunham, Holyoke 35, at once, that they may be voted upon...