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...request of the two captains, the citizens agreed to make the boat-houses water-tight, a quality they did not possess last year. They also agreed that the space below the finish line should be unobstructed for one quarter-mile, and be patrolled by police-boats, and that the course should be buoyed by yawls anchored half a mile apart, each boat flying a red flag from a staff twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark...
...teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock, P. M., there will be a four-hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur...
...some of those who are eager for a change say that they ask it not as Episcopalians, but because amusements are suspended at the time when the vacation now comes. This is certainly a more sensible ground to put the request on than the other, but I very much doubt whether the object of the Faculty in giving us vacations is to provide us with amusement...
...request that the Spring Recess shall be postponed until after Lent is made early enough this year for the authorities to take action upon it. There is no conceivable reason for having it in Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen...
...request of the Reading Room Association we call attention to the recent thefts of its property. A desire to steal something seems to have infected the College and its vicinity. The depredations of outsiders are frequent and annoying enough, and when in addition kleptomania threatens to become prevalent among the students, the prospect is a gloomy one. It is very exasperating to all frequenters of the Reading Room to have its magazines suddenly "spirited" away, and we trust that the students are not numerous who can voluntarily annoy so many of their fellows...