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...table given below, taken from President Eliot's annual report, is of great interest as bearing on the question of the length of the College course. During the last few years the Faculty have had to consider a very large number of applications made to them in individual cases and the table shows to what extent students have received the degree of A. B. in other than the regular four years course. The table shows for the class graduating in each of the five years, 1890-94, (1) the number of those who received the degree of A.B. in three...
...Opposite the boathouse Oxford had already got the canvas bow of their boat in front of the Cambridge boat. For the first minute Oxford rowed thirty-eight strokes and Cambridge thirty-six. Oxford was drawing ahead rapidly and at Bishop's Creek the Oxonians were leading by half a length...
Favored by the shelter afforded by the Surrey shore, which the Oxfords selected after winning the toss, their boat was rapidly increasing its lead over the Cambridge shell, and they were rowing easily. At Craven Cottage Oxford was a length ahead. Cambridge was spurting, but could not gain against Oxford's long, sweeping stroke. Shooting Hammersmith Bridge, Oxford was still a length ahead. Cambridge made another spurt, with the same result as before...
...Thorneycroft's the rough water bothered both crews and Cambridge had a shade the best of it, Oxford being barely a length ahead at this point. This was more than two-thirds of the distance, but the Cambridge partisans had not given up hope. From this point, however, Cambridge fell behind, and at Barnes's Bridge Oxford was three lengths ahead. From Barnes's Bridge to the ship Oxford maintained the lead, and won easily...
...question for debate, as before announced, will be: "Resolved, That if it were possible, a reasonable property qualification for the exercise of the municipal franchise in the United States would be desirable." Princeton will have the affirmative, Harvard the negative. The principal speeches will be twelve minutes in length. Two speakers from each side will have six minutes each in rebuttal. The debate will be opened in the affirmative by W. H. Butler of Princeton. C. A. Duniway will speak first for Harvard. He will be followed by J.W. Park in the affirmative. W. E. Hutton will speak second...