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...very unfortunate that any action on the matter his gone forth from Harvard, for there can be only one opinion, if we keep in view Harvard's reputation and honor, that now we can not honorably get out of a league with Princeton...
Hosmer, the oarsman, will keep his shell at the Yale boat house, while in New Haven...
...studies such as mathematics and natural history on a face may be observed. If is a curious fact that a composite photograph is generally more beautiful than any one of the component pictures. Dr. Bowditch suggested that another valuable application of the art would be for every photographer to keep on hand negatives of selected persons, so that a man when having his picture taken could order a slight resem balance of Daniel Webster or George Washington...
...forming an opinion of the crew. He says in brief that the watermanship is good and in advance of former years, but the stroke is very short and far from the long sweeping swing that has brought victory to Yale for the past few years. The men do not keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal to success, of coming up hard at the end of the stroke, the result being that the boat stops between strokes, instead of gliding along evenly and smoothly as it should. Captain Cook not will...
...stroke, the pins are placed in front of the end of the slide. It should be understood that this stroke, properly rowed, is devoid of all jerking movements. Although the oar is actually "yanked" into the body, in order to toss the water from the blade and keep the boat jumping between the strokes, all jerking appearance is avoided by the simultaneous heave of the shoulders at the end of the stroke. Indeed, the dominent virtue of this system of rowing is its smoothness and freedom from all apparent effort. Even in the excitement of a race, when...