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...capital, land or business ability, will accrue to the laboring classes, if they look properly to their own interests. This theory of distribution is certainly the most hopeful one for labor and humanity that has ever been advanced, and it will in time the lecturer thought, be proved the nearest to economic fact...
...tank is divided into six longitudinal compartments. The floor of the middle ones, on either side of the boat, has been leveled and raised about six inches. The ends of the tank nearest the dressing rooms have been changed so as to divide the water and cause it to flow back on either side of the middle channels...
...most complete. Goethe stands before. erect, proud, and stately; Schiller a little taller is looking out into the distance while Goethe holds in his hand a laurel crown which he seems to think no man has a better right than himself to place upon the head of Schiller his nearest rival and dearest friend...
...bridge, and the finish just off the Union Boat Club float. The water was in almost perfect condition, and what little wind there was did not interfere at all with the work of the crews. Shortly after half past six the crews took their positions. The Athletic Club were nearest the wall, the 'Varsity shell had the middle place, and the Union crew were a little on the other side. At 6.40 the start took place All the crews catching the water together. Harvard started off with 32 strockes to the minute, while the Union crew were rowing...
...each other on the same day. It has been found that the new Harvard bridge, not withstanding the breadth of its spans, will cause considerable difficulty, and some very clever steering will be required of the coxswains. Two of the four class crews will probably pass under the span nearest the draw on one side and two under the corresponding span on the other. The positions will be determined by lot in ample time to give each crew a chance to get perfectly familiar with its course before the day of the race...