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...Class races occur on the tenth of May, the day of the Yale game, the four class crews have just one month left for practice. For the last four years '82 and '83 have taken all the honors in rowing, so that none of the present crews have been victorious in the class races. The seniors are now rowing as follows...
...Reed's next statement is that the Polo Grounds' track is wide enough to start two rows of riders without mishap. Though last year a fall occurred from bad starting, yet the danger is more in the number of riders at one time on the track than the number starting. Besides the starters rarely know their business and dangerous falls are sure to occur if the number of starters is large. Mr. Reed mentions that there is a rule which provides that the race be started again if the starters fall within 10 yards of the start. This rule...
...scorings, marginal notes, etc., and only a few weeks ago we had occasion to call attention to the outrageous misuse of a library book in this manner. There seems to be a set of literary vandals who feel it incumbent upon them to write as marginal notes whatever may occur to them on the perusal of a book, quite regardless of the fact that such notes are not only utterly worthless, but oftentimes very annoying to another. Of course every one has a right to cover his own books with any reflections he may choose to disfigure them with...
...government of the school was originally in the hands of six men, elected from the parish, who filled all vacancies which might occur in their number, but this monopoly ended fifteen years ago, and the government now consists of the surviving members of the old board, with six others appointed by the Lord Chancellor from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, the Royal Society, and from the masters of the school. A number of fellowships are connected with the school at various colleges, but principally at Oxford. For a long time after its foundation, classical studies were alone fursued...
...entries for the games must be made at least one week before they occur...