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...that there has been a Harvard crew for years that has not rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have the faults in the recovery of not feathering their oars, and they pause...
...procession started promptly at 9.15 a.m. The line of march was down Fifth avenue to Thirty-fourth street, thence to Broadway and up to the Metropolitan Opera House. There was little decoration along the line of march. The procession was five blocks long and was formed in ranks of ten front. Stewart L. Woodford, '54, was grand marshal. The graduates were the next in line. There were about two hundred and fifty of them. One hundred and twenty members of the professional schools followed; then came the college by classes, and lastly the School of Mines. As the hour...
...that have been made about the college yard with the view of improving the appearance of the turf. In many places the earth has been upturned, carefully raked and put in readiness to receive the flowers and shrubbery which, we understand, are to be planted in a few days. Along the edges of the grass plots where the grass has been rudely worn down, fresh sods have been placed. The flower beds have been laid in many instances close to the corners of the college buildings, along the routes which have been used by students as "short cuts" regardless...
Some verdant freshman has painted a large "90" on the outside of the boat-house along side of the "88," which has been there since the races last May. Hopeful '90 doesn't appear to fully appreciate that a race ought to have been won before his efforts with the brush were essayed...
...party of Yale '89 men intend to cruise along the New England coast from New York to Bar Harbor...