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...correspondent writes from Yale to a New York paper that he thinks her inferiority in boating is largely caused by the close policy carried out by the managers of the Yale navy. It has been their policy during the last few years to keep everything about the 'varsity crew secret, and to allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows...
...attention has been called to the fact that several instructors are accustomed to keep their sections beyond the last morning and afternoon hour, it again becomes necessary for us to ask that the college bell may be rung at these hours, namely, at one o'clock and at four o'clock. As long as our instructors will persist, intentionally or not, in keeping their men over the hour, so long will there be a just claim for this demand, for often the instructor, becoming interested in his work, forgets how rapidly the time flies and does not dismiss the section...
...champion, will enter these races and try to lower the records in every distance up to ten miles. There may be some of the fastest riding ever seen in this country at the meet. The club will have social meetings at intervals through the winter, in order to keep up the interest in the sport...
...kind of amateur contests because they make no money in return for the expense incurred. For this reason, any one college cannot undertake more than one or two races a year. Now Harvard is already saddled with two races for the coming summer and finds its hands full to keep its present engagements, and Yale seems to find enough to occupy all its attention to prepare for the race with us. For these reasons we think that the position taken by Pennsylvania is entirely unwarranted, and we need take no further notice of their claim, simply continuing...
...quarter acres situated where Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton now stand. From tine to time, down to 1883, when the last purchase was made, various lots of land were added as the requirements and needs of the college in creased. In the earliest times the old town palisades, to keep away the Indians, ran not far from the western line of the present grounds. At the Harvard Square corner was an eminence, which must have been leveled, known as "Watch Hill," upon which a sentry was stationed. Where University now stands was formerly the college wood yard and nearer Stoughton...