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...float is in position and the bridges or gang-ways will be adjusted in a few days. Before the end of the week eleven boats in all will have been placed in the house. A janitor has been procured who has had experience at New York both as janitor and boat builder, and the indications are that the place will be ready for use in a little over a week. At the Harvard boat houses everything is in order to begin the season. The large float is adjusted and the bridges on, but the small float is still useless...
...they had every reason to expect a rich treat would be given their patrons and are thoroughly disgusted that the managers of the Harvard Glee club, with whom they contracted for a first class entertainment, and for which they paid a large price, should have sent them a gang of young fellows who if they can sing well did not, and whose deportment behind the curtain and before the footlights was certainly not what is to be expected from young gentlemen...
...large float has been put in place at the boat-house. The gang-ways will be ready within...
...faculty, and a few years later the freshman societies ceased to exits by decree of the same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These last offenders were tried in the city court, but they escaped free of fine or imprisonment through legal technicalities, thus avoiding welldeserved punishment. During the same year...
...interesting tug-of-war is reported from Texas. A horse-thief and gravity against the limb of a tree. At first there was a tie, then the first side got the drop. Subsequently the leader of the gang pronounced it a "dead heat...