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...courses are to those of Harvard and Yale, or any other of the American university courses of which I know anything, as the (about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts of it where they cannot do even that. If, therefore, these English universities have developed such...
...editors of the American Law Review and Register have offered two prizes of seventy-five and twenty-five dollars to the two members of the graduating class of the Harvard or other American Law School who shall write the two best annotations between two and three thousand words in length. The subject of each annotation must deal with but one point of law which has been brought up before an American court within the last twelve years. The two articles winning the prizes will be published in the August number of the Law Review...
three years, and the college itself serve as a preparatory department to the larger schools. The Monthly points out at length the plausibility and desirability of such a system in an editorial occupying in all, seven pages...
...sophomore crew won the first of the one mile races yesterday, beating the seniors by two boat lengths. The juniors came next, finishing only half a boat length ahead of the freshmen...
When the Harvard Bridge was reached '96 was leading the seniors by half a boat length; '95 was next, closely folowed by '97. This order, taken within fifty yards of the start was preserved to the end of the race...