Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the drowning Thursday on the Charles River, the Department of Athletics has instituted the use of red record cards for cases in which the Freshman swimming test is passed with restrictions, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, confirmed yesterday...
WHEN the air is clean around here," says a longtime resident of Youngstown, "we're not happy." In good times, the city's steel mills along the dirty Mahoning River roll out nearly 10% of the nation's steel, and a sooty haze from the smokestacks lingers inescapably in the air. Last week with the steel mills strikebound since mid-July, the air in Youngstown was ominously clear...
...L.S.U. because he was fascinated by the diversity of folk music in Louisiana. He follows the folk trail in a battered 1953 Mercury, tracking down leads with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...
David Bachrach '59-2 of Eliot House and Brooklyn, N.Y., drowned yesterday when his wherry overturned at 5:35 p.m. in the Charles River near Stillman Infirmary...
Autumn, like so many other things, is a tradition at Harvard. Each year when October whistles through the Yard and along the River, when the nostalgia for the summer past is replaced by the excitement of football weekends, when undergraduates begin to think about women and parietal hours and changing traditions, the Masters retire to their respective catacombs and wait for it all to pass...