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Thus ended the race, for which our Freshman crew worked faithfully during the winter months, and for which they sacrificed a considerable part of the summer vacation...
...august procession of the Alumni entered Memorial Hall to the tune of "Johnny Morgan." The hall was well filled, though most of the recent Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot, the President of the Alumni Association, arose and spoke...
...eastern side of the building, i e. on the side nearest the Scientific School, are the bathing and dressing rooms. A dressing-room fitted with lockers, and measuring 16 by 93 feet, extends from the office door to the northern wall of the building. This part of the gymnasium has one small and two large wings. The northeastern and southeastern wings (each 20 by 24 feet) are provided with stationary wash-bowls and bath-tubs, and have brick floors and glazed-brick walls; thus, the greatest durability and the greatest cleanliness are at once obtained. The small wing, between...
...basement will probably be the most attractive part of the building. Here there are nine bowling-alleys in a room 83 by 84 feet. At the northern end space has been set apart, 83 by 30 feet, for ball practice, and coal-bins, store-rooms, water-closets, and a boiler-room fill the rest of the basement. A large bow-window projects from the western side of the gymnasium, and is designated as the "Armory." It is to be hoped that the Pea-body rifles of the H. R. C. will be safe in this armory from the raids...
...lost it before the end of that mile. The Harvard crew did not pull a faster stroke at this point, but they pulled a stronger one. The third mile saw Harvard pulling 36 to the minute, and Yale, four lengths behind, at the same old stroke of 34. This part of the race was enjoyed intensely by the crowds on the grand stand. All we could see were the flashing crimson oars, and we had to imagine the blue oars in the distance...