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...crew away the following summer, if present indications can be relied upon. A number of men are already in hard training in the gymnasium, an effort has been made and successfully, to enlist the interest of upper class-men, and everything promises well for the undertaking." Cornell's last exploit with a university crew seems to have been enough to last her several years, and now the attention of the college is centred on the freshmen...
...Secretary Blaine's spirited exploit in the Panama canal affair, says the Nation, "resembles the quarrel and separation of the young couple, immediately after the birth of their first boy, over the question as to whether he should go to Yale or Harvard." The canal...
Each brave exploit of those intrepid...
...race was also run in heats, and the deciding heat was run in 10 1/4 seconds, - a quarter of a second better than the time at Saratoga, and more than a second better than the performance on Jarvis, last fall. The throwing the cricket-ball was perhaps the best exploit of the two days. The winner threw 103 yards 11 feet. A base-ball can, of course, be thrown easier than a cricket-ball; still our winner, in throwing, covered but 306 feet, - less by fourteen feet than the distance covered at Rugby...