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...Simmonds has made another attempt to cross the channel in a balloon...
...movement on the part of '85. It is a long-established custom that the rooms in the yard shall be at the disposal of the senior class on class day, and, in face of such an usage, it would be bold, to say the least, for any one to attempt to refuse his apartments. The issue would prove extremely unfortunate to them as they could never expect the hearty support of the whole college in such a measure. We can only appeal to the sound sense of the class in this matter, and trust that in a few days...
...Bigelow, who has just resigned the chair of surgery in the Harvard Medical School, was the leader of the majority of the faculty opposed to the admission of women to the school, and it is expected, now he is out of the way, that another attempt will be made to have the doors opened to both sexes," says the New York Tribune...
...instructor who receives them is not to make plain how best to study the subject during the summer, in order to successfully take the examination in the fall, but, on the contrary, he strives almost entirely to convince them of the complete impracticability and utter folly of such an attempt; and we are sorry to say that he generally succeeds in discouraging (the idea would be better expressed by "bulldozing") the majority of men present...
...been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here, it is to be feared, will be discovered the weakness of the Yale crew. The crew do not observe the excellent rule made by Captain Cook, that the strength of the stroke should be expended...