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...slight strain on the rudder-lines, and to the only spurt they were called on to make, drew slightly off from Columbia, forged rapidly ahead, crossed Columbia's bow, and now, in the third mile, left her five lengths behind and in the outside position. This was accomplished by cool, powerful rowing and skilful steering. Columbia's hard work was telling on her, but still, with her admirable pluck, she spurted again and again, and as Harvard dropped her stroke to 33, and pulled easily along in search of the stake-boat, the position of which was completely concealed...
...this pleasing announcement, I go to lunch, to be entertained with the eternal talk about J. Cook and the Boston Transcript, the same remarks that I have heard every day for a week. By this time I am pretty well disgusted with life, and rush away from lunch to cool my body and my temper with a sherbet at Belcher's. Here I am met by a classmate, who talks about the war in Turkey. What do I care about Turkey? The other day I thought I ought to take some interest in it; so I sought out a newspaper...
NATURALLY enough, we think, the [Cornell] challenges were not accepted. The papers of Harvard and Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana...
...from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool it off, I come back and find that my faithful servant has been in and shut it before me allowing the mercury to regain its former position, and from that lofty eminence it smiles blandly upon me as I enter...
...Bryant, as was also the second round and the bout. It remained to decide the last bout of the middle-weight sparring between Messrs. Bryant and Wiley. This first round was by all odds the most interesting feature of the day's sports. Mr. Wiley was very cool and collected. The contestants closed and did lively work, which called out repeated applause from the audience. The round was given to Mr. Bryant. In the next round Mr. Bryant appeared somewhat blowed, but never lost an opportunity for his cross-counter. After hard fighting on both sides, the round was given...