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Amherst boasts a "Piscatorial Club" which has nearly finished a dam for a fish pond they are constructing...
...retiring of the Union forces two miles. Instead of pressing the attack the Confederates retreated. The battles of Glendale and Seven Pines followed shortly without decisive results, other than to protect McClellan's line of communication with the York river. An attack is now made by Lee on Beaver Dam, which is easily repulsed through the failure of Jackson to come to time. McClellan now gives up all idea of an offensive campaign and begins his inglorious change of base and retreat to the James river...
...convention of the colleges interested in the "Child's Cup" race at Philadelphia decided to admit Cornell in the place of Columbia and to change the course to the Flat Rock dam course twelve miles up the Schuylkill from Philadelphia. This will reduce the handicap which the Pennsylvania crew has hitherto held over other competitors...
...Somerville hill by a very roundabout way to Union and Central Squares. Here the scent was very bad and the route very winding, so that over and over again the hounds lost their way. From Central Square the route lay by Magazine St., across the river to the Mill-Dam, here again the hares or rather hare, as Mr. Rust had had to give up, thus losing the race to Mr. Harrison as really the hares are supposed to keep together, made many windings till the Mill Dam was again reached. Here the order was given to break for home...
Dartmouth is taking up boating, since by the building of a dam on the river near by the college the river has been widened sufficiently to allow of class races...