Word: penobscot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very names of American rivers make poetry, from the Pee Dee to the Little Muddy, from the Penobscot to the Salt. But in Powder River, as in the previous volumes of the series, poetry is lacking. The rivers of America were never so dry as they seem in these books...
Michigan--Luncheon at Intercollegiate Club, thirteenth floor of the Penobscot Bldg., December 27, 1 o'clock, Detroit. Secretary, Robert L. Hatch '28, Detroit Trust Co., Detroit, Michigan...
...Southern coast of Maine between Portland and Penobscot Bay, scores of tidal inlets snake from the sea between mud-flat peninsulas, crab-haunted and reedy. In these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped...
Harvard Club of Michigan. Lucheon, December 29, 12.15 o'clock, Intercollegiate Club, 13th floor, Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Michigan. Secretary, Lowell I. Lofgren, 1004 Union Guardian Bldg., Detroit...
University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...