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...lack of wind made the surface very smooth, but rowing was rather difficult, owing to the strong ebb-tide that was flowing and which swerved around the various turns at a very rapid rate...
...regarded as the choice of both colleges. This year Yale selects the day for the race which must always be rowed on the Thursday or Friday following the last Wednesday in June, each college choosing the day on alternate years. The race must be rowed on the ebb tide and within two hours of high water. The course must be marked by a central line of buoys situated at each half mile point and either boat may be disqualified, if, at any point during the race it approach to within ten feet, or be distant more than a hundred feet...
...above clipping plainly shows that the knowledge of the "Ebb and Decline of Bicycling at Harvard" is not confined to the college alone. When a sport, so prominent in English universities and on the increase there and in this country, has come to such a point as this, it is time that something was done; either it must be dropped altogether, or elevated to the position where it belongs. It is a deplorable fact that, among the candidates for the Mott Haven team, there is not one man trying for the bicycle race. Last year there was but one representative...
...papers come from the press they are safely placed under lock and key, where the wicked student has no hope of effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove...
...brings in again the argument used by Capt. Storrow, that the blazers are effective on bringing out a desirable esprit de corps. If enthusiasm in the crew, and pride in their work were at such a low ebb that it has to be bolstered up by showy loafing uniforms, we fear that the crew would not put much life in their work even with this great inducement of blazers. Mr. Sexton asks why the crew should not have uniforms as well as the other athletic teams. They do have uniforms, both for exercising, and for contests. Do the other teams...