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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while as a matter of fact Yale and Harvard row very differently from the English crews. This difference is inevitable from the difference in English and American rigs. The Yale and Harvard crews are rigged practically alike. The characteristics of their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally can use and varying for each man. In England every stretcher is fixed at an angle of 45 degrees and the exact number of inches the crew can slide fixed by the coach. In the Oxford and Cambridge crews this is from 15 to 151/2 inches...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...
...number of candidates for the University crew have already begun training, rowing twice a week in the harbor. As long as the weather permits this plan will be followed...
Among the many gifts that Yale has had, none have ever been received with more pleasure by the students than the new Gymnasium. For a long time the present gymnasium has been a disgrace to Yale, it being in ever way unfitted for the purpose. The work of tearing down the buildings on the lot where the new gymnasium is to be erected is well under way and it at last looks as if the long wished for building was soon to be a reality...
...Hare and Hounds runs yesterday W. Alexander L. S. and F. P. King '91 acted as hares leaving the gymnasium at 4.05. Seven minutes and a half later almost fifteen hounds were sent away under J. D Gorbam '90. The run was hard and long the hounds having so much difficulty in following the trail that they gave it up returning to the gymnasium at 5.20 led by W. C. Downs. The hares came in at 5.24. Both hares and the first hound will receive cups...