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TUG-OF-WAR.The '86 team were nine pounds heavier than their adversaries, but '85 had the benefit of last year's experience, which was considerable of an advantage, '86 had the North side of the gymnasium. At the word, "heave," the ball hardly moved, neither side getting an advantage on the drop. Soon, by a few good heaves, '86 got an advantage of a few inches, which they kept in spite of the repeated heaves of '85. '86 won by 6 inches...
...that the per cent is continually varying; they are used to conceal the real weight of the duty from those who are unacquainted with the values of the dutiable articles. The ad valorem duties are theoretically more equal and just, but yet the tendency of all countries is to drop them. The faults found are: The difficulty of correct judgment by custom officers; the danger of fraud in concealing the true value; the competition of different ports in order to obtain more trade by appraising he goods lower. In this country, the lecturer explained, the ad valorem duties...
...winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate the temperature...
...Porter, the Columbia athlete, writes in the Spectator : "There was a day when Columbia led all colleges in athletics, but of late she has dropped behind Harvard. Why is this so? Not because Harvard men have any physical superiority, naturally, but because of determined work, and that, too, not by one or two men, but by large numbers. For several years past it has been possible to predict for months in advance that Columbia would not secure the intercollegiate cup. This year the chances are, that unless a new support arises, the college will drop to a still lower place...
...there which well deserves the condemnation it receives. I refer to the insufficient supply of hot water in the bath-rooms. I do not know exactly what time the hot water gives out, but I know that no man on the '85 crew has been able to find a drop of warm water for some time, and I believe some of the other crews find things the same way. There are lots of other men who stop exercising promptly when the bell rings, who yet are obliged to take a cold bath or none. Of course they might leave...