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...light, but just before the start it freshened up, so that the sea was very choppy, which, of course, greatly lowered the time. In the drawing for the courses, Harvard received the west course, the course which she had in last year's Yale race. Columbia took the east course, which is considered some six seconds faster than the other...
...party from the Boston Institute of Technology, mining and engineering department, left Boston last evening on a scientific expedition to Virginia, West Virginia, and East Tennesee, taking in the wonderful caverns of Luray, Natural bridge and the New river mining section of Virginia and the mountains of East Tennesee tributary to Bristol and Johnson City...
...party of about fifty Wesleyan students visited East Haddam Wednesday evening. They first stopped at Mrs. Matison's barn, where arrangements had previously been made, and initiated fourteen "freshies," after which they crossed and were well received by some of the town boys, eggs and apples being the chief refreshments. After partaking of a fine spread at the Gilston House they returned home by the five o'clock train. The town boys regret their not having a regularly appointed committee of reception, but hope the students will appreciate their efforts to make it "pleasant" for them. Depot Master Geer reports...
...Page's address before the Finance Club last evening was one of great interest. The speaker's style was familiar and entertaining, and the manner in which he handled his subject showed that he had made a thorough study of it. The Southern States east of the Mississippi were compared to the Northern States east of the Alleghanys, especially with New England, in regard to area, population and industrial progress. Virginia, thanks to slavery, is fifty years behind Massachusetts...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory the Advertiser says: "The undergraduates will have access to the lecture room and general laboratory through a small entrance at the east end of the building and by a stairway removed as far as practicable from the rooms devoted to special investigations. This arrangement, and the placing of the engines and dynamos on the outside of the building, in a separate building to the eastward, will serve to prevent the jar of the machinery and the tramping of students from interfering with delicate observations. The basement of the central piece is occupied by receiving-rooms and storage...