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...very improbable that the Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed over the usual course this year. Only two apertures are available in the Hammersmith bridge, and the boat which took the middle course would lose two or three lengths. It is proposed to row the race from Westminster to Putney, the course over which the race was rowed at the beginning of the contests...
...young men from Cambridge" as the New York Times calls Harvard students The reason for the popularity of "Guerndale" is evident to one who compares it with the ordinary run of books founded on American college life. The best of these before the appearance of "Guerndale" was undoubtedly "Hammersmith," but this dealt with the one set of college society which has always furnished materials for such books in all countries. The young men who have oftenest formed the heroes of these novels belong to the class called "sappy" and give but a poor idea of the flesh and blood which...
...following review of "Hammersmith; his Harvard Days," from the last number of the Yale Lit., in point of date is quite in accord with the spirit of that venerable periodical. In point of spirit it is exceedingly breezy and most extraordinary, and therefore worth quoting: "Having never seen nor (we confess it) heard of this book before, we picked it up with the reflection: 'The man that could perpetrate a story of five hundred pages about Harvard - or any other college for that matter - ought to be flayed. Conceited undergraduate, no doubt. Confound him!' 'God bless...
...race between Largan and Sylvie Gookin of Boston for $1000 a side was rowed over the Thames championship course yesterday. Mr. T. B. Whitefoot, editor of the London Sportsman, awarded the race to Largan on a foul which occurred just before Hammersmith bridge...
...fact, the career of P. A. Villiers is well worth making a note of by people who get their ideas of Harvard life from "Student Life at Harvard," "Hammersmith," the Boston Herald, and such veracious sources of information...