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Whether "Hammersmith" will obtain a fixed position as the Harvard novel, is a question which must be left to the decision of the more experienced; that it will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
...Folding-doors admit the visitor to an entrance-hall which opens on the left to the hall, and on the right to the office, where the Curator can see every one that goes out or in. The main hall of the gymnasium is 119 feet long at its greatest length, and 81 feet at its greatest width. It is as long as the Memorial Dining-Hall, and considerably wider. On the right and left sides of this mammoth gymnasium, at a distance of 18 feet from the walls, are placed twelve columns that support the timbers of the central roof...
...Round Table has a prize essay, nearly eight columns in length, on "Individuality and Individualism." We did not have courage enough to get further than the title. It is in a state of great excitement over a coming lecture by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and urges its readers to show their "appreciation of his unexcelled talent" by a large attendance...
...from 8 1/2 to 10 seconds too fast, as the course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...
...when now, at length, it seemed best to those in power, there was a race of twenty-four stadia on a machine, wonderful to look upon, called by those inhabiting this region a bicycle, which is of such a kind as follows : there are two wheels, of which the foremost, on the one hand, is large, having many and long spokes, but the one behind, on the other hand, is very small. On these machines, then, they contended in the stadium; and two youths especially rode near to one another, at one time one being first, at another time another...