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...report is current in the New Haven and New York press to the effect that Albert Muller, a Yale student from Nevada, has turned adventurer. He has succeeded in swindling Lawyer Bennett out of $1000, and a New Haven bookseller has suffered to the extent of $300. He has fled and his whereabouts are unknown...
...generally known that a plan has been under serious consideration to change the University course for those intending to study medicine. A rumor to this effect started in the Medical School last spring and soon spread among the college men who were interested in the subject. At first it was thought to have no foundation, but it now seems to have had good authority, and bids fair to be carried out before another year...
Only a short, desultory practice was indulged in yesterday as the weather was damp and cold. The ground was in very fair condition and showed the effect of careful attention during the summer. It is too soon yet to know whether there is any base-ball talent in '91, and it may be well to say here that every freshman who has played ball to any extent, should take the first opportunity of going to the field and practicing with the rest of the candidates. Rumor says that there are several very good players in the incoming class...
...11/2 mile flag Columbia was over three lengths behind, and the gap between the two boats was widening at every stroke. The eel-grass certainly was having an effect which urged Harvard on to greater efforts. To those who have never seen the course, it may be of interest to know that it is not eel-grass itself that causes all the trouble. The grass does not get caught in the oars and clog the course of the boat, but it deadens the water, making the tide much weaker than it is in the west side in the channel...
...boats neared the finish they were greeted by the usual New London concert, which at times sounds most pleasantly, and at others most disagreeably. This time, although the volume of noise was greater, the general effect produced was hardly equal to that rendered at the time of the Columbia race...