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...race which must always be rowed on the Thursday or Friday following the last Wednesday in June, each college choosing the day on alternate years. The race must be rowed on the ebb tide and within two hours of high water. The course must be marked by a central line of buoys situated at each half mile point and either boat may be disqualified, if, at any point during the race it approach to within ten feet, or be distant more than a hundred feet from the central line. This is a most important rule, providing, as it does, that...
...white, cylindrical building on Magazine St., south from Central Square, has doubtless attracted everyone's attention. This light-house-looking structure is the Cambridge Powder Magazine, and following are a few facts concerning its history...
...first place, great care should be taken not to make the course a "soft snap." It would have to be managed very shrewdly, so that there would be plenty of work somewhere, even if Russia took it into her head not to advance further into central Asia, if Germany suddenly decided not to extend her colonies, and if the whole Irish question suddenly ceased by Gladstone's yielding what is demanded of him. History pauses sometimes...
...Arnold Arboretum is devoted to the planting of trees and shrubs which number over two thousand varieties. There is no one collection in the world which contains so many varieties. Their arrangement is also excellent. In one row we can trace the apple as it first existed in Central Asia up through varieties to the crab apple; till finally it reaches the ordinary American apple...
...stronge men sallied and alsoe struck ye Master despitefully. Atte ys ye widowe Hariss sette loose ye greate mastife with ye one eie, and ye playe ceased as ye dinner belle range. Ye game was spoken by Master Pinkeytighte as ye game of ye faire Harvarde youthes. Ye central rusherman of Yayle was hurt most pitously...