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...again after Thanksgiving until January 10, omitting of course the Christmas holidays. At that advanced date the boat work had to be given up and the gymnasium appliances brought into play. The rowing machines formed the main portion of the indoor work, to which was added a series of general exercises laid down by the captain, the details of which he considers a 'trade secret.' At the machines the amount of exercise varied as to length of time, sometimes being continued as long as twenty-seven minutes, but always at a stroke of forty per minute, with occasional faster bursts...
...little from the perpendicular either at the beginning or end of the stroke, and the sole means of propulsion employed are the legs and arms. The former to push the slide back and the latter to finish the stroke by pulling the oar home. There is a very general aptitude throughout the boat, however, to resort too soon to the use of the arms and do bent arm work, but that is little else than natural with such a style of stroke. The men go back and forward without swinging out of the straight line and the boat is kept...
...allow themselves to be in the least frightened or disheartened. The work required to master the subject for the examination can readily be accomplished by an hour's reading each day during the three months' vacation. The examination assigned is not as difficult as is threatened, and as a general thing candidates for anticipation obtain better marks than those who take the course regularly, and upon whom are inflicted ever-recurring hour examinations...
What has been said is perhaps not true of all the college janitors, but in comparison with them in general that familiar lazy man of the fable seems extravagantly active...
...Attorney-General MacVeagh was called yesterday as the first witness against the star routers...