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...Regatta Concert" that evening, given by the Cornell glee and mandolin clubs, a box was reserved for the visiting crew, and "Fair Harvard" was one of the numbers on the program. Shortly after breakfast the next morning, the manager appeared at the hotel with a drag and four horses, and invited the entire squad of twelve Harvard men to drive with him along the shores of Lake Cayuga, and in the afternoon special seats were reserved for them at the Pennsylvania-Cornell ball game. Immediately after the race the Cornell men aided those whom they had just defeated in getting...
William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen...
...Mansfield left the Newell Boat Club on Friday afternoon, and soon after his empty boat was discovered bottom up in a sinking condition by one of the graded crews. As he did not appear, a search was instituted, and on Saturday and Sunday searching parties were sent out to drag the river for his body...
...hundred men took part in the Republican college parade last night; one thousand from Harvard and the rest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Men from the Harvard graduate departments headed the procession and were followed by the Harvard Republican Band. The Seniors were next, and after them a drag occupied by the editors of the Republican and two landaus with the officers of the Republican Club. The classes of 1902, 1903, and 1904 followed in order. The Technology contingent, headed by a float, brought up the rear. All the marchers carried torches and each division had one or more...
...extent that is extremely encouraging. Under fair conditions they recently rowed a mile and a half time trial in 7m. 48s. The appearance of the men is splendid. They are an exceptionally well boated crew, and row a powerful long stroke, that has as its best features a strong drag and hard finish. Donovan who has entire charge of the coaching is fully satisfied with the men and has no doubt as to the crew's ability to win all its scheduled races...