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...very glad to note the arrangements which have been made for the Memorial Day service. They seem to be precisely what is needed. The shortness of the service will add to its impressiveness, and the attendance of the Grand Army post will bring home the significance of the occasion more effectively than could anything else. Professor Norton has been very kind in consenting to take part in the services. His sentiment for the observance of the day is so strong and sincere that it must communicate itself to every one who hears his words...
...half there seem to be few men outside of Harvard and Yale who can hope to finish up near the front. Kelsey of Pennsylvania has run in about 2m. 3s., and Orton from the same college should go very fast if he is not used up after the mile...
...hundred yards besides the Harvard and Yale men, Dear of Princeton and Ramsdell and Bucholtz of Pennsylvania seem most likely to show up well. Dear won the recent Princeton-Columbia hundred in 10 1-5 seconds. Ramsdell has been running regularly in the same time this spring and Pennsylvania seems fairly confident that he will win. Buchotz was second in the event last year but has been beaten by Ramsdell this spring...
...organize two clubs to meet on different nights. One was to be a debating club; the other was to take the form of a military company. Of course in addition to the debating and drilling there were to be games and such other forms of amusement as should seem best for the boys. But it was expected that besides taking the boys off the street, the most good would be accomplished by personal contact with the students...
...attempted in the slightest degree to evade this publicity. On the contrary, the crews seem to appreciate the general interest taken in their work, and tacitly invite the public to come and enjoy it. The London daily newspapers regularly print the hour at which the men will go out on the river, morning and afternoon, and in consequence the banks are covered with all kinds of interested spectators...