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This class, which numbered 115 men and was one of the earliest to pass the 100 mark, contained many notable men, of whom the following named, twenty-five in number, are now alive: John Bigelow, Charles Lee Bixby, Allan Foster Boone, Herman Francis Brashear, Elihu Chauncey, John Doggett Cobb, Charles Alonzo Cooper, Frank Warren Hackett, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Alpheus Holmes Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, David Francis Lincoln, Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, James Rundlet May, George Herman Powers, John Ritchie, Wesley Caleb Sawyer, Joseph Herbert Senter, Edward William Sanborn, James Kent Stone, Richard Stone, Charles Storrow, James Putnam Walker, Stephen Williams Whitney...
...University four-oars raced in the Basin yesterday afternoon. Starting from the Cottage Farm Bridge the first crew gave the second six lengths handicap. Both crews left the mark rowing 38 strokes to the minute. The first four soon dropped to 36, which was maintained to the finish. At the three-eighths of a mile mark the boats were on even terms and at Harvard Bridge a length of open water had been gained by the first. The second crew finished a quarter of a mile below the bridge three lengths in the rear. The first continued over the full...
Clifford was put in to bat for Desha and came up to the mark with a perfect sacrifice. Potter succumbed to Imlay's fast shoots. Then McLaughlin hit an easy one to Aldendifer, who had been fielding his position faultlessly, but in his anxiety to make a fast play, the later fumbled the ball, allowing McLaughlin to reach first easily. Meanwhile Babson had rounded third and was racing for the plate. Aldendifer's throw was too far to the left of the rubber to allow Cozens to catch the runner and Harvard had the tieing...
...secure an A in a course open to Freshmen is no real proof of scholastic ability. It might be answered that while the work of first year courses is, in the main, introductory, the number of men in the courses make more unusual work necessary for a high mark than in many of the smaller more advanced courses. The figures of the past few years show that the number of Sophomores in the first groups is considerably smaller than either Juniors or Seniors, and the conclusion might be drawn that the work is therefore comparatively less easy...
...outside coaches are essential. Apparently they are too lazy to prepare themselves thoroughly or else they are victims of the fantastic notion that by listening to the charmed words of the tutor and reproducing them as nearly exactly as possible on the examination paper they will get a good mark...