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...Weld won the postponed intermediate eight-oared race yesterday afternoon by about five lengths over the Jeffries Point crew. The Riverside crew withdrew. At the bridge the Weld led by a length, and from there to the finish, at the Union Boat Club, gained steadily...
...essay on "The Rise of the Oil Monopoly," G. H. Montague '01 traces at length the reasons and conditions of the great growth of the Standard Oil Trust. The gist of his exposition may be given by quotations from the concluding pages of his essay. The Standard Oil Company, he says, raised itself to the dominant position by controlling the transportation of oil. The steps of its progress are clear. In the period from 1870 till 1874 it so availed itself of railway conditions and of its strategic situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched...
...Newell crew won the junior eight-oar race. At the bridge the Weld crew was about half a length behind the Newell, with the interscholastic crew third and Millstream fourth. The Newell then drew away and the schoolboys caught up with the Weld. Here the Weld coxswain fouled the interscholastic crew, and 7 in the Weld boat broke his oar and jumped overboard. The interscholastic crew crossed the line two lengths behind the Newell. The orders of the winning Harvard crews were as follows...
...eight-oared crews will race for a mile and a half straightaway down stream. The other races will be rowed over a course of the same length, with one turn...
...title itself is poorly chosen, the characters are delicately and clearly drawn. The conversation, too, is natural; nevertheless the story would undoubtedly be much more appreciated and effective were there less of it. "Out and In," by Ezra Kidd, suffers, as do the rest of the stories from length and the lack of an obvious plot. The writer has shown a tendency to make many pointed observations on human nature in general--perhaps almost more than can be enjoyed at one time...