Word: channels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the start and finish at the same points as in the four-mile course for Harvard-Yale races in former years the survey shows that after the first half mile the course follows the centre of the channel thus giving every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet...
...justice of these decisions is a consideration which is neither here nor there. The football management secures men whom it considers capable. If they accept the invitation they confer more or less of a favor and their decisions are very properly held as final. Above all, the only channel through which a remonstrance can with propriety go, is the captain or the coaches. But it is surely superfluous to discuss details of etiquette at football games. Harvard men have always taken a peculiar pride in maintaining their self-respect by courteous treatment of adversaries, and by a reluctance to question...
...although the demand for paper inflation has died out, only a few days ago a free coinage bill passed the United States Senate. So we see that the proposition of our opponents, while it would not remove the danger of inflation, it would direct the inflation movement into a channel a thousand times more dangerous to all the business interests of the country...
...second of his lectures on "Russian History and Literature," Prince Wolkonsky had a closely attentive and appreciative audience. The object of the lecture was that period of Russian intellectual culture when it enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed...
...advantage of positions lies considerably with '95, since their course follows the channel where the tide runs strongest...