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...rate, the 'varsity crew of last year made their brilliant record without any aid of this nature. As rowing men know only too well, a prolonged period of rigid training grows terribly irksome, and it certainly seems that getting the 'varsity men into rowing trim for a class contest in the fall is stretching the rules of training a trifle...
...freshman class at Yale numbers only 134. On the other hand, the Sheffield Scientific School has a freshman class of ninety-three - a gain of ten students over last years. And the advocates of the elective system are not slow in calling the attention of their opponents in the contest in educational methods to these suggestive figures, and from them draw the obvious conclusion that the elective system, as exemplified at Harvard, is becoming more and more popular, and that the old system of requiring Latin and Greek must yield...
...spite of the intolerable heat of the afternoon a crowd of almost 6,000 paying spectators gathered to witness the contest, while some 2,000 more watched the game as best they could from outside the fence. The reserved seats were crowded with ladies, by whom the crimson was liberally displayed...
...base-ball contest stands as below...
...hotly raged the contest then...