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...trial for the chorus to go abroad this summer is postponed a week to avoid a conflict with the concert of the Musical Clubs tonight. All men in the University who intend to try are requested to send their names, with range of voice, to Mr. W.A. Locke, Mr. W.R. Spalding, or F.W. Aldred '00, Hapgood Hall, so that further arrangements for the trip may be made at once...
...rowed in the "Oneida" only a few times "for fear of blistering their hands," they beat Yale over a two mile course by four lengths in 10 minutes. A practice race had been rowed in the morning with the same results. The only idea of training was to avoid sweetmeats and pastry on the day of the race. This crew was called a University crew, but it was really one of the club crews. Not until 1856 was a boat house built to hold the first University boat...
...right of the hall, is intended for the curator's office, and that on the left will be occupied by the staircase. On the second and third floors will be exhibition rooms, seventy-four by thirty feet, lighted from the north and south sides only, in order to avoid cross lights. In the second story of the projection will be a small lecture room, and in the basement will be the store rooms...
...Secretary, Orator, Poet, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister, will be held today between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. in Brooks House, ground floor, east. Voters are requested to enter the House through the door facing Holden Chapel. Men should come between hours as much as possible to avoid the rush just after lectures...
...definite set of instructions is to be drawn up and printed upon slips sent the judges before the debate. During the debate the judges are to be seated separately in order to avoid the present tendency of the debaters to speak to one part of the house. In the selection of judges, a list of twenty will be submitted together with the question, six weeks before the debate. Two weeks later nine names, in order of preference, will be returned. Of these nine the first three in order who accept will be chosen to judge the debate...