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...signal for the boats in the first race to take their positions will be given to-morrow at fifteen minutes before eleven. Any boat not on the line at eleven o'clock will not be allowed to start. Every succeeding race will be called five minutes after the completion of the race next preceding...
...which appeared in the College papers when the system was first proposed, we find the benefits which were to follow its adoption described in the most glowing colors. It was to put every species and variety of nautical craft at the service of every student for the sum of fifteen dollars, and a hope was held out that this annual payment might subsequently be diminished. Thus the average undergraduate physique was wonderfully to be developed. Healthy means of daily recreation were to be gained for every student. Dozens of athletes were thus to be kept in permanent training, ready...
...time made at the Cornell Spring Races was two miles in twelve minutes and fifteen seconds, by a six rowing in a shell. The Hobart College Nine beat the Cornell Nine twenty-five to twenty-three in seven innings. The score was kept only of outs and runs. On the whole, we should infer that the Cornell students have yet something to learn in base-ball, if in nothing else...
...Tuesday afternoon a picked eleven played a matched game of foot-ball with a picked fifteen, and won three straight games. This match was to enable the captain to choose the University Eleven. On Thursday a match was played between the Eleven and a picked eleven, consisting of gentlemen from Boston and vicinity, most of whom were graduates. The University Eleven won the match in three straight games...
...past fifteen years this paragraph has been going the rounds of the press. I am sorry to see it again; but I suppose that the editorial barrel has been again turned, and that this reminder of "Auld Lang Syne" has come...