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...Yale adhered to the English stroke with undoubted success. Harvard, too, had in the meantime adopted it. In 1876 I left college, and from 1877 to 1880 Yale abandoned the new system, through the mismanagement of those at the head of its boating department, and resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system...
...college for women will be opened in October at Westbridgeport, Mass., the funds for the support of which were left by the late William Howard, and are in the hands of a board of trustees. Miss Helen Magill will be at the head of this institution which hopes to rival Wesley and Vassal in excellence...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology will soon welcome back its head, Alexander Agassiz, from his trip to India. Prof. Agassiz has lately been examining the great aquarium at Naples with a view to the introduction of water into the laboratories of the museum, the new wing of which was built with his own money mostly, and on plans providing for an aquarium. Professor Agassiz's outlay from his own fortune on this institution has not been less than...
...stranger, modestly, as he slipped on his coat and started up the wharf. "My name is Hanlan-and I hope to see you all at Vallejo on Thursday. Good morning." And since then all you have to do to get fourteen stretchers fired at you, is to stick your head into the Pioneer club-house and yell, "Hard all!" [Aquatic...
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