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...steam in order to keep up with the crew, the connecting rod of the low-pressure cylinder broke, knocking off the cylinder head and smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made...
...Medical Hall of the University of Pennsylvania was badly burned recently. The fire was confined to the two upper stories of the building, but the rare works of art together with medical collections of great value were ruined. In the three lower floors great damage was done by water to the museums, libraries and laboratories...
...Yale Athletic Association has decided to hold two extra field meetings at an early date. Expert time-keepers will be present from New York, and Sherrill, Harmar, Berger and Shearman are expected to lower the records...
There will be a second H. A. A. meeting on Holmes Field tomorrow afternoon, at which attempts will be made to lower the intercollegiate records for the mile walk and the two-mile bicycle race...
There will probably be a second meeting of the H. A. A. before the Mott Haven games, at which attempts will be made to lower the intercollegiate records for the two-mile bicycle race and the mile walk...