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...used in the original laying-out of the track, and the whole contract was carried out in a thoroughly unsatisfactory and careless way. A survey made last fall has shown, moreover, that the whole field has sunk somewhat - in places, as much as a foot. If this is the actual state of affairs, - and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of these statements, - something must be done at once. No one will care to make a record on a track which is not level, and the one branch of athletics in which Harvard was successful last year will...
...fishing in the Pliocene Age, and how many fish they caught on an average with each worm. I can tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length of a Latin foot, and could have proved that the Romans wore pigtails, and had plank walks. During a lecture on the Italian classics, I proved to myself by the theory of curves that Napoleon was only Hannibal in disguise, and that the Graian Alps were so called...
...with a letter in the Boston Herald, explaining their position, and declaring that the championship belongs to them. The facts of the case are certainly such that Yale must have the sympathy of every fair-minded observer; for she had the best team in the field, and won by actual play one more game than Princeton did. But, until it is definitely decided in a formal convention whether Columbia forfeited its game of November 20 or not, we do not see how the title Yale claims can be allowed to her. If Princeton, after giving up (in the formal meeting...
...cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition is not, on the 80 per cent basis, a sufficient title to a degree cum laude; if so, it, along with several other...
...actual result is well known. Though the weather was perfect; though the arrangements were unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from...