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Last year the Freshmen rowed Worcester over the same course. Worcester put up a beautiful race and was beaten by hardly a length, in fast time. The Worcester crew this year has five of last year's men in the boat and a close race is to be expected...
...rowing in the new shell built for them by Davy and it has proved itself a splendid boat. The recent addition of Boardman '99 and McDuffie '99 to the crew has materially strengthened it. The crew as a whole is rowing a rather high stroke, but it retains great length and a strong finish. Donovan, who has been coaching the men daily, considers it the fastest Weld crew he has yet turned out. G. Orton '97, coxswain, was yesterday elected captain...
...Professor Trowbridge has just completed another still more powerful apparatus for the study of electrical force It is capable of producing sparks in air, resembling lightning flashes, of from six to seven feet in length. The discharge creates a sensation as if a window had suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half...
...Cambridge Hospital and that of the Old Peoples' Home-one hundred feet on Mt. Auburn street and extending back to the new Parkway. The proposed building will be of brick with stone trimmings, two and a half stories in height, with a frontage of forty-six feet, and a length of one hundred and thirty feet or more. In addition to the single rooms for students there will be a library and reading room for convalescents, rooms for the parents whose sons are patients in the Infirmary, the necesary bath rooms and laboratories, and a diet kitchen in addition...
...first round was rowed yesterday. The closest race was between the Roxbury Latin crew and Noble and Greenough's, the former winning out by three feet in very good time. Cambridge High and Latin beat Brown and Nichols by a length; Boston Latin School beat Stone's School by three lengths and Chauncy Hall beat Volkmann's. The crews are of an exceptionally good quality for school crews and the races have fully rewarded the interest taken in them...