Word: river
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Arrangements have been completed for a boat race between Yale and Annapolis. The race will be rowed on May 11, on either the James or Severn River...
...conclusion of the war joined the regular army. Later Mr. Hayden became connected with a western railroad, then with the Boston and Albany, and subsequently with the Cheaspeake and Ohio. About twenty years ago he was made general traffic manager of the New York Central and Hudson River Road, and for the past few years has been second vice-president of the company. At the time of his death Mr. Hayden was a director of about 20 transportation companies in New York City. He was a member of the Union, the University and the Harvard Clubs, and the Century Association...
...another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river's master, is wonderfully interesting, and loses no interest in the telling...
...Cambridge Park Commissian has been making plans to extend the park system, above the Harvard Bridge along the river as far as Brookline street, crossing the Albany tracks by an overhead bridge. The sea wall will be continued some 280 feet and then turned in at an angle to meet a beach which will be constructed as far as the tracks. About 150,000 cubic yards of filling will be required, most of which will be taken from the river bed. This will reduce to a great extent the large mud flats which are so prominent at low water...
...today as pure a pleasure as it should be, and as it was when he rowed on the crew. It is to be hoped that rowing will be further fostered in the near future by the construction of a dam at Craigie Bridge, which would keep the river at high water mark all the time. In concluding, he spoke of the generosity of Alexander Agassiz, who had already given much to the University in many ways, and of the diligent efforts of Professor Hollis in the interest of athletics...