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Instructors have always willingly responded to invitations to lecture to College societies. Such lectures have been instructive, and have been highly appreciated. In 1873 a lecture on art was given before the Athenaeum. Professor Morse, last June, gave an entertaining and instructive lecture before the Natural History Society on the "Theory of Evolution." Photographic exhibitions of foreign views have formed the instructive amusement of several evenings. Such occasions have always been successful, and the regret is that they...
...route lay, and soon we were pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill commanding a view for miles about. Fully ten minutes elapsed, after the dogs were led into the woods, before the sign of a trail was struck, but suddenly the deep baying of the hounds gave all to understand that it had been found. Away went the hunting-party over fences, ditches, and stone-walls, more after the manner of a steeple-chase than a fox-hunt. The gentlemen were easily distinguished, for the most part, by their red waistcoats and jockey caps, the ladies (for there...
...gave his tail a little shake...
...Brown last, steering very wildly. These positions were maintained till with in a dozen boat-lengths of the line, and Yale men on shore were beginning to count their winnings, when Princeton astonished everybody by putting on a wonderful spurt, which sent their boat swiftly to the front, and gave them the race by little more than one third of a length. Time, 18 m. 12 3/4 s. The following is a summary...
...boats collided, and stopped rowing; the Yale stroke oar resting against the starboard waist outrigger of Harvard. The Harvard boat being thus held back, her captain ordered the starboard stroke to pull, which he did, and in so doing disabled the Yale rudder. After the boats had separated, Cook gave an order "Easy port, hard starboard," and at this time the Yale bow oar snapped, and Yale was out of the race. This foul took place according to a time calculation at the mile and a half point. Columbia had now a not-to-be-overcome lead, our crew having...