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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Berkeley oval track at Morris Dock, seventeen minutes ride from the 42d street station. The Berkeley track is one of the best in the country, being especially fast for bicycles, with its long dished up ellipse curves. It is situated on a high hill very near the Hudson. The grounds themselves are very attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees, on the edge of which the very pretty stone club house stands...
...course of the race was the same as of that rowed by the class crews last Saturday, the start being from near the Longwood bridge, and the finish just off the Union Boat Club float. The water was in almost perfect condition, and what little wind there was did not interfere at all with the work of the crews. Shortly after half past six the crews took their positions. The Athletic Club were nearest the wall, the 'Varsity shell had the middle place, and the Union crew were a little on the other side. At 6.40 the start took place...
...kicked each day. A goal from the 25-yard line counts one point, from the 35-yard line, two points, and from the 45-yard line, three points. Marvin, '89, is the only man who has kicked a goal from the 45-yard line, although others have come very near it. The following score was made out without reference to the 45-yard line, hence the highest possible score is 150 pints...
This little book appears very appropriately near the centenial anniversary of Washington's inauguration. Its contents are already familiar, for it is merely a compilation of some of the greatest documents of American history. The book contains the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
...that rowed in previous years, but will have to be changed slightly on account of the new bridge. As now determined the course will start from a line drawn three hundred feet from the coal sheds below the railroad bridge and parallel with a line drawn from Otter street near the Union boat house; the latter is to be the finish. The course is so arranged that two crews will pass through the first span of the Harvard bridge on the Boston side of the draw, and one through each of the adjacent spans on the Boston side...