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...morning the crew take a long. steady pull, or practises starting, but they seldom row any distance on time. This is generally left for the afternoon. While they are out, the launch usually returns from New London, bringing a supply of provisions, etc., and also the morning's papers and letters for the crew; so that when the crew come back, they find enough to engage their attention until two o'clock, when dinner is served. The table is a long one, large enough for fifteen or sixteen people. Plain china crockery and glassware are used, all the service...
...last two miles are generally pretty rough, much more so than the upper course, which is more sheltered; but it is said of New London, I believe, that there has been but one postponement in seven years. Last year's races were rowed in pretty rough water, but we seldom see the course as rough as was the Charles River this spring on the day of the class races...
...seldom that an instructor is afforded the opportunity of becoming so closely related with the undergraduates as has been given Mr. Jones in his work, but it is even more seldom that an instructor has been able so to gain the universal good will of the students with whom he has been so related. We wish Mr. Jones every success for the future and trust that he may be speedily induced to return to his work at Harvard...
Exhibitions of this sort have seldom been given before, - that of two years ago being the only one which has taken place before yesterday's. It is hoped, however, that the custom will be kept up, as the interest in rowing among the undergraduates seems to need especial encouragement at this time of the year. To-morrow the crew leave for New London, where they will stay until July 2nd, the date of the Yale race...
...horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been perfectly rational, except that they attribute too great significance to these occasional outbursts,) that interference in such cases is seldom wise, whether on the part of faculty or students, and that "prohibition seldom prohibits...