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...which were only exposed by the exhibitor. There will be two prizes in the first class, and one in the second. In addition there will be a special prize for the best collection of pictures exhibited, and in this case artistic merit will outweigh technical considerations. The committee will hang only such photographs, however, as come up to a certain standard of excellence, both technically and artistically...
...team photographs. Those of the Mott Haven Team have been placed at one end of the room, and, at the other end, on opposite sides of the door, are the photographs of the crews and the 'varsity elevens. The hundred or more banners won in years past still hang from the ceiling. The case containing all the old baseballs and footballs, remains in the same location it has occupied before. As a result of the addition of the World's Fair photographs and charts, the room is crowded to overflowing...
...from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap for a shorter one. The men are apt to hang on the full reach and don't succede in keeping the boat on even keel. However, the crew is an average freshman one, and with the month of work they have yet before the race at New London, they should make a great deal of improvement, and row well against...
Several more men may come down to the class crew when the 'varsity crew go to the training table. The general faults of the crew as a whole are a hang at the full reach and a very poor finish. The time also is very poor...
...Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea...