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...favorable mention. "The Ballad of the Trenton," by L. W., is a spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water, so that the "merry" death scene is not historical; but there is much virtue in poetic license. The number also includes "A Song," by W.S. Archibald, and two "College Kodaks...
Alpheus Hyatt, S.B., Assistant in Invertebrate Palaeontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died suddenly last night, probably of apoplexy. He was standing in Harvard square about half-past seven, evidently waiting for a car, when without any warning, he sank to the pavement, and died a few minutes later. Dr. Hildreth was summoned, but arrived too late to render any assistance. The body was removed to the home of the deceased at 19 Francis avenue. Mr. Hyatt has not been known to have been in ill health recently. His age was sixty-three...
...Knapp, Jr., '95, was drowned Thursday afternoon at Riverside. No one was near at the time of the upset, and in his efforts to save his fiance with whom he was canoeing he became so exhausted that he sank just as help arrived. The body was recovered...
...waves and began filling almost immediately. Mr. Lehmann, seeing that there was likely to be trouble, called to the crews that the race was off. Almost as soon as he had done so the Sophomore boat went down. Ninety-eight rowed a few strokes more, when they too sank. A few minutes later '99 also filled...
...Freshmen sank just after crossing the line, and the Law School just before reaching it, and by the time the launch reached them, the men had been in the water so long that they were nearly exhausted. McKay, stroke of the Freshmen, in endeavoring to get out got caught under the coal wharf, and Brittin of the same crew was nearly done up by the cold water...