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Holworthy led all the way back, while there was a dead set-to between Matthews and Weld for second place...
...that kind of whom we often read, but fortunately seldom meet. The days were not long enough for him to recount the wonders he had seen and done, and all with the most utter contempt of probability and disregard of grammar. He had recently been married, - for the second or third time I should judge, - and had his wife, a blooming maiden of twenty or so, with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly as is usually the case under similar circumstances. On the morning of the third day after...
...account, to race for a cup or a work of art. M. Loubat has just officially announced to the Yacht Club of France that he has offered a cup worth $ 1,000 to the New York Yacht Club, to be sailed for, in open sea, on the second Thursday in October, 1876. The vessels are to be schooners, of 100 tons and over. The owner of the Enchantress is a member adjoint of the Conseil Maritime of the French Yacht Club...
...College is to have the Boat-house on condition of paying off the existing mortgage and fixing up the second story with two hundred or more lockers, a bath-room, with shower-baths, bath-tub, hand basins, etc., and a reading or sitting room. There are to be reserved for the University Crew their present room up stairs and one compartment down stairs...
...Friday, May 28, a large crowd of the undergraduates and their friends assembled on Jarvis to witness the second game between Princeton and Harvard. There was considerable delay occasioned by trouble in finding an Umpire; Hodges, '74, who had agreed to fill the position, not putting in an appearance. Finally, Mr. Denton, of the Scientific School, was chosen, and consented to act. Game was called at 2.35 with the Harvards at the bat. The first innings closed with a blank for both sides. In the second innings Kent got his first, Thayer went out, when Ernst got a heavy...