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...crew is improving rapidly from day to day, and it seems probable that it may make a fair showing in the race a week from next Friday. Yale has a tremendously powerful crew that rows with perfect watermanship. But with all the advantages that Yale has, the Harvard crew does not feel discouraged and will do its best to keep Yale busy for the whole four miles...
...method the student is obliged to write a large part of his examination in the hot, noon hours. He has also the drawback of being crowded in with a lot of other men who are also annoyed and made nervous by the excessive heat. If our buildings had a perfect system of ventilation the case might not be so bad. As it is, however, there seems to be only one solution to the difficulty; and that is to set the hour for the examinations earlier and thus avoid the heated hours of the middle...
...tended first of all to develop the courses designed especially for graduates; and secondly to arrange far more systematically all the courses which make up the curriculum. This year the same plan has been followed out; and it is plain to see that the great care has been to perfect the new arrangements which during the past year have been successfully begun. In arranging the scheme for this year the faculty have had an unusually hard task; inasmuch as they have been compelled to put in two entirely new groups of studies, and still to keep all the courses properly...
...sixth annual championship meeting of the New England Interscholastic Athletic Association was held Saturday afternoon on Holmes Field. The weather was perfect, the track was in fine condition and the records suffered in consequence, six being broken and one equaled. The events were on the whole very closely contested, and the audience was large and enthusiastic. the meeting was smoothly conducted, the waits being, with few exceptions, short, so that all the events but the pole vault were over by half past five; in fact the meeting was an unqualified success from every point of view...
...last inning. The whole team backed up the pitcher in a way that left very little to be desired. Bates fumbled a grounder in the first inning and Dickinson another rather difficult one in the sixth, but with these exceptions the fielding of the team was perfect. Whenever one of Morrill's men got a base he was sure to be thrown out before he came home. Only one man scored, and only one was left. Bates watched the base like a cat, and whenever Cobb had a chance the ball went down to second with great speed and accuracy...