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...consider whether he ought to place the interests of his own pocket before the interests of his class. If a senior has any extra tickets which he cannot use, let him sell them to members of the class at the fair price adopted by the committee, and not put them on sale at a place where everybody who may take a fancy to buy them...
...exercised in rat-killing. As soon as the rats arrived the owner's classmates were overjoyed. They abandoned their lessons, and hastily repaired to a convenient yard, where the crate with its squealing live stock was conveniently placed for the exhibition which came off this afternoon. Fannie was put inside the crate and time was taken. A committee of students had first counted the rats, and found them to number just twenty-seven. The students danced about in wild glee at the sport, and in about six minutes Fannie had killed every rat. It is reported that they were procured...
...record of our last run, five miles; these were always at a steady pace, improvement, not distress, being their object.' On February 20, the ice was out of the river, and work on the water was resumed, the gymnasium exercise and running being both dispensed with. Both eights were put to work again as in the fall, and on April 1 the crew, as at present constituted, was decided upon. It should be stated that all the Yale rowing has been done in shells, and always at a fast stroke - or forty strokes and over per minute...
...high at the end of his feather and misses the first part of his stroke. He begins the swing before dropping his oar blade into the water, and then when he does get hold his swing is retarded and his shoulders give with the strain put upon them. The swing is thus subdivided into two movements. Bow is the only one of the crew who fails to row with a perfectly straight back, and as No. 2 is particularly strong on that point bow's faulty shape is rendered all the more conspicuous. With the faults...
Upward of 3000 persons watched the seventh annual games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, at the Polo Grounds, New York, Saturday. The greatest work of the day for excitement was the 220-yards run. Myers, the champion, was beaten by Brooks of Yale. Myers was put back a yard for a false start, which he could not recover. The half-mile was won by Goodwin, '84, over eight contestants...