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...Half-Mile Run. Messrs J. Holmes '79, T. H. Simmons...
...Williams Athenoeum has a new board of editors, who set forth a very sensible credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
...river near the boat-house, since the warm weather has come on, presents quite a lively scene of an afternoon, between half past four and six, and more frequently may be seen the hapless tyro swimming toward the float with his dismantled shell...
This was the pair-oar race, filled by Messrs. Jacobs and LeMoyne pulling against Smith and Schwarz, the former being allowed 10 seconds because of the disparity between the boats. When they passed the boat-house, on the way up to the turning-stake, Smith and Schwarz were about half a length ahead, which distance they steadily increased. The time made was, Smith and Schwarz, 5 minutes 50 seconds; Jacobs and LeMoyne, 6 minutes 5 seconds, the former thus winning the race by 5 seconds...
SOME one has been trying to write Latin verse at Dartmouth, and our friend the Advocate has quoted some of it; but without comment. For about a week the Dartmouth has probably been half tickled with the republication, half annoyed that there was no pointing out of special beauties. We strongly suspect that in a few days the Darimouth will be thankful the Advocate did not comment, and rather wish it had n't published...