Word: currents
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...encourage the '93 crew. In former years the freshman class has almost invariably filled at least one tug, and sometimes two; but less than twenty '93 men showed enthusiasm enough to sign for one. Subscriptions, also, are slow in coming in. The manager is already seriously hampered in paying current expenses. Unless the crew is far more liberally supported, the race with Columbia will have to be for felted...
Professor A. B. Hart has a long letter in the current number of the Nation on "Government and Tariff in Canada...
...current number of the English Illustrated Magazine are two excellent articles on boating, one on "Rowing at Oxford," by W. H. Grenfell, the other on "Rowing at Cambridge," by R. C. Lehmann. Mr. Grenfell's article is a sketch of an imaginary Oxford man who enters college knowing nothing about rowing, and ends by being stroke of the 'varsity eight. In the course of this sketch a vivid description is given of rowing matters at Oxford, of the novice, torpid. college and the 'varsity crews, the amount of training and coaching each has to undergo. Strict training at Oxford begins...
...current number of Harper's Weekly Gustave Kabbe contributes a two column article on "College Theatricals." He devotes especial attention to the Harvard theatricals, and says: "The Hasty Pudding and D. K. E. lead in college theatricals generally." A page of illustrations accompanies the article...
...libretto is very amusing, and abounds with hits on the follies of society in general and college society in particular, The music is taken partly from current light operas but is largely the composition of E. A. Bigelow the musical director. The acting was excellent and elicited continued applause from the large audience...