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...Striped Fog, Robert P. Bellows...
...Yale crews. A strong southerly breeze made the course a little too rough for the best work in shells, except well up the river. It was expected that one or both 'varsity crews might cover the full course, but they did not attempt it. Before dusk a dense fog hung over the river and land, making it dangerous for the boats...
...LONDON, CONN., June 5. - Fog and mist hung over the Thames all day, but these disagreeable conditions did not prevent the crews from having their customary practice. They were on the river this forenoon and late this afternoon and did good work, though there is opportunity for vast improvement. Steam yacht Thyra, recently purchased by Mr. James A. Stillman, arrived this afternoon and her master will report to Stillman of the Harvard crew, who has her at his disposal. She will remain until after the 28th and will be made use of by the crew when they are not otherwise...
Just as in days when the fog shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...
...shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which it casts about all objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened...