Word: bays
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...Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that the farmers had to build walls to get rid of them. In a similar manner, the geological formation of Massachusetts Bay made possible the fisheries which made our forefathers a sea-faring race...
...movement and expresses the thought admirably. In a very different vein is "The Ballad of the Overconfident Pollywog," by F. R. DuBois. This "fable for Freshmen" is full of life, amusing, and all the better for being quite different from the usual run of Advocate verse. "Sunset in Penobscot Bay" by W. B. W. shows appreciation of nature and is written in a metre well adapted to the subject. The number closes with several long book-reviews...
...Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht club will hold three consecutive days of racing on June 21, 22 and 23, and has invited members of the Harvard Yacht club to compete. The races will be held at Oyster Bay. Special prizes for amateurs are offered, and after the regatta members of the Harvard Yacht club are invited by the Seawanhaka club to cruise to New London in time to see the Harvard-Yale races...
...series of courses in natural history will be given by Harvard men during July at Bayville, Lineken Bay, Maine. The object of the work will be to teach the elements of natural history by observation in the field and laboratory under trained observers, and to furnish opportunity for more extended work...