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...said that Harvard has a true system of rowing. Every crew which leaves the boathouse uses the same stroke. The whole staff of coaches is working in unison for the races in the Spring. With the situation-clarified by the recent report on the exact status of the various rowing authorities there is every indication of a new era in University crew
...Contemporary American Novelists, Carl Van Doren says of him: "His shorter stories not less than his novels are racy with actualities: he has caught the dialect of his time and place with an ear that is singularly exact; he has cut the costumes of his men and villages so that hardly a wrinkle shows. In particular he understands the pathos of boyhood, seen not so much, however, through the serious eyes of boys themselves as through the eyes of reminiscent men reflecting upon young joys and griefs that will shortly be left behind and upon little pomps that can never...
Recent reports that stills had been discovered in dormitories on the campus at Yale are not without their precedents at the University, as a full-fledged brewery was among one of the earliest buildings in the College Yard. Although it has been impossible to find exact records of the date of the construction of this building, it can be clearly seen in some of the earliest pictures of the Yard now in the print collection at Widener Library. One pictures, an engraving made by F. Hill for a number of the Massachusetts Magazine in March 1790, shows the brewery...
...Observatory, considered next to Dr. Omori the greatest expert on the origin of earthquakes, told the Japanese that another great and destructive shock will visit Northwestern Japan "within 20 years." "The deplorable fact is," he continued, "that in the present state of seismological developments there is no foretelling the exact date the visitation will come...
...report was received with loud and prolonged applause. It was adopted unanimously. Henceforth, the creedal position of the Protestant Episcopal Church is as definite and clear as the latest and most exact...