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...this time rowing had a firm footing here, and a boat was built solely for purposes of speed. She was named the "Harvard," and was of the design known as "lapstreak." To shelter her a boat-house was built. Hitherto the boat had been kept in old sheds or moored on the river...
...these much desired results, it is necessary that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be subscribed to the support of the school. As sixteen different colleges are to contribute, it is to be hoped that the needed funds will be shortly forthcoming. With the school established on a firm basis, with an able corps of instructors, and under such a director as Mr. Waldstein, the advantages for classical study and archaelogical investigation will be such as have never been enjoyed before by any classical students...
...firm of J. Bergmann & Brothers of Troy, are about to build for the Yale University crew a new paper shell, to combine all the advantages of shells hitherto used, without disadvantages. It is 65 feet by 25 inches, one foot longer and one inch wider than the shell used in last year's race. This shell is to be tested by the Yale crew and is sent by the manufacturers merely as an experiment...
...course. After graduation he accepted a position as instructor in Groton Academy, but rapidly failing health soon compelled him to retire. The class whose number is now for the first time since graduation broken, loses one of its most promising members, and his friends a true examplar of firm Christian manhood...
...present time, he went on to point out how this could be remedied by a suitable scheme of Home Rule. He also maintained that the Irish had advanced sufficiently in political training to render it safe to entrust them with self-government. He closed his case by expressing his firm conviction that Home Rule would soon be an accomplished fact, because of its recent rapid advance, and because it embodies a principle which always succeeds...