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...class will graduate from the Law School this year on account of the lengthening of the course...
...cannot conceive why Harvard dawdles with the demands of Columbia and Cornell to be admitted to the annual race on the Thames. Cornell is a polytechnic and industrial school, with no more claims to 'university' than the Troy or Boston Institute, or the one at Hoboken. . . . If we are to pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having...
PRESIDENT ELIOT will preside at the dinner of the Boston Latin School Association, November...
...over for the single sculls in 7 min. 33 sec. '79 won the six-oared barge race in 5 min. 33 sec, '82 second, '81 third. Eldridge, '79, and Brown, '78, won the pair-oared race, beating Ridabock, '79, and Fiske, '81, in 7 min. 30 sec. College beat School of Mines in the four-oared barge race in 6 min. 51 sec. There were also some tub races and a canoe race...
...seen by this week's paper, these races are neither an impossible nor an improbable thing. There is no reason why eight-oared shells should not be used, if the men are willing to train. They are used at all the English colleges and by all the English schools, and what school-boys at Eton or Harrow can do, surely men of our College can do, if they will do sufficient training and work together. A reason for the second eight's rolling their shell in the manner described may have been owing to the changes of men and positions...