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...proceeded directly to the starting line. A new method of starting the the crews was adopted for the first time this year. A rope was stretched from the bank near the Mill-dam road to a point about the middle of the bridge. There were placed at equal distances along this rope boats, each kept in place by guy-ropes, from which the crews were started. This arrangement insured a perfectly fair start...
Late in the afternoon last Sunday, and probably also on other days, the frog-pond in the Botanical Garden was worth visiting. Multitudes, almost myriads, of frogs either sat along the margin of the pond, sunning themselves, or leaped and plunged and frolicked in the shallow water, showing as unmistakable signs of fun as kittens show in their play. Their actions were very droll, and the shrill chorus of little voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs...
...President Eliot : At one time the students got in the habit of sitting in large numbers upon the fence. The president not desiring such a thing to become a custom, was at a loss how best to break up this practice. At last one evening, as he was walking along the sidewalk and the students were sitting on the fence singing, etc., the president said : "Gentlemen - Allow me to congratulate you on having adopted the Yale custom." The president was never troubled afterwards by students sitting on the fence...
...true that many physicians object very strongly to the wheel, and prophecy many injurious results that will arise from its use. How true and accurate these prophecies are, all who have ridden a bicycle for any length of time, who have experienced the exhilaration of whirling rapidly along in a manner which seems contrary to the laws of nature discovered by Newton, and who have felt their muscles grow firmer, their lungs stronger, and their nerves more steady by its use, can easily judge. In fact, most physicians who have raised the strongest objections to the bicycle are the very...
Crevasse disasters are increasing along the lower Mississippi River, and the overflowed lands are filled with desolation and the protected spots with distressed refugees. It is estimated that 70,000 of Louisiana's laboring population are destitute...