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...delivery room floor. Space will be taken out of this second and third floor of the stack for a staircase to the reading room. This new apartment vestry in the upper stack, will have a new roof for its ceiling, which will have a skylight running its whole length. This roof will be as far above the floor of the new reading room, as the suspended plaster ceiling was above the old one. The windows will be stripped of their old tracery and diamond lights, and fitted with clear glass. Tables with reading rack and swivel chairs will give space...
...present time. The progress has not been an easy one. A long time after student favor was won, official favor was withheld through lack of confidence in the students' ability to carry on their adventurous undertaking. But years of experience bring knowledge. The editors of the CRIMSON at length proved that their paper was worthy of official recognition. Having gained so much, the paper has gradually made iself almost indispensable to the student. It tells him in the early morning everything of interest that has happened in the college world the day before and as far as possible all that...
Carter opened the sixth for Yale with a low liner almost over third base. Winslow reached after it and fell on his side, catching the ball at arms length and close to the ground. It was one of the finest plays ever seen on Holmes Field. Speer reached first on a high fly, which fell between Winslow and Rand, but Letton and Quinby went out on a fly to Paine and a grounder to Wrenn respectively...
...Henley Club. In the Cornell boat were Matthews, Bentley, Roe, Freeborn, Shape, Hall, Louis, H. Hamilton(stroke). On the way down the Americans had the lead, but at the start, the boats were even. The Henley crew then immediately began to draw away, and were a quarter of a length ahead by the time they had pulled sixteen strokes, when they stopped rowing, having broken a rowlock string...
...soon showed in front, but Henley again drew up about level, and both crews ceased rowing, having covered a distance of a quarter of a mile. The boats were put about and the crews rowed from Bushey Gate to Henley Bridge against the stream. The Henley crew took a length's start, rowing 36 strokes to the minute. Cornell, pulling 46, overtook them in about two hundred yards, when Henley again began to draw away. The rowing of the Americans became ragged, but they soon steadied themselves, passing Henley, and were a length ahead upon reaching the bridge. The distance...