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...into proper shape for the race. The work then will be hard, the four-mile course having to be covered at least twice a day, besides the running, walking and indoor work. There will be no system of diet, the men being given as much as they want of plain, substantial food. The stroke rowed by the Columbias is long and steady, with a sharp, wuick recovery, which will send their boat through the water at a high rate of speed. The average weight is fully eight pounds heavier last year's crew...
...expensive posters and had them placed upon the bulletin boards than they mysteriously disappear. And yet the mystery attending this sudden disappearance is not so very deep after all, for it is certain that they are taken by no one except freshmen. Has it not yet been made plain to eighty-eight that the old-time practice of "ragging" signs and posters has fallen into disrepute...
...teams. It is needless to point out the lesson to be drawn from this state of things. We feel confident that the men who are to represent the crimson upon river and field will do all that can be done to embellish our trophy room, which, to tell the plain truth, has not in recent years been overcrowded with the colors of victorious teams...
...door training. The ice is just beginning to break up in the river, and the state of Holmes and Jarvis is anything but satisfactory for the prospects of the base-ball and lacrosse teams. The lesson to be drawn from this state of affairs is perfectly plain. It has been too often called to our notice to require much elaboration now. Our teams must make up for their forced inactivity by increased exertions when the period of propitious weather does arrive, and the base-ball men may find some consolation in the thought that Hanover is even further towards...
...some stinging blows on Clement's head and body. In the second round Paine went in for business, and his superior weight began to tell. He did effective work with his left, but many of his blows were dodged and countered by Clement. The third round made it plain that although Clement was more scientific, he was too light to stand up before his adversary. Paine planted some heavy blows on Clement's face, and was awarded the bout...