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...this is true, and I believe it to be true, the only time in which Yale can row an English crew is in July or August. We could not in any possible way, shape, or manner, get our crew into its best shape as early as April. Why, the ice doesn't break up in New Haven Harbor so that we can get on the water before the middle or end of March. It needs all the time that we can get, every hour of it, between April 1 and July 1, to get our crews into their best form...
...would make the accounts clearly intelligible to any book-keeper. The committee believe that in this way the object which was aimed at in drawing up the agreement between the organizations has been fully at tainted, and that in time the accounts will all be brought into the same shape without any sudden change. The committee feel that it is necessary for them to say that at no time has any one of the five organizations refused to submit the accounts for their inspection or to explain fully the particulars with regard to any of the items in these...
...which is offered by six Harvard men is of solid silver and very heavy. It is between eight and nine inches high and about the same in diameter. The body of the cup resembles in shape half a Rugby foot-ball. About the top of the cup is a band of olive leaves in raised silver, and below this is another band on which is placed the name of the cup. Upon the wide space below, which runs round the body of the cup, are morning glories and leaves raised in silver, the leaves being left blank for the inscriptions...
...Bardwell, an English mathematician, claims to have squared the circle after fifteen year's work. His solution is eight figures, which, in concrete shape, form a perfect cyclometer...
...radical change in athletic policy. The outlook seems particularly hopeless from a general belief that recent failures are not due to a temporary lack of material, but a wrong method on the part of the students in bringing together and selecting the material, and in putting it into proper shape. The students are rightly excusing themselves in the restrictions put upon them by the faculty's regulations; causing, as they believe, an entirely wrong tone in athletic affairs. It is time to redouble the protests that have come in rapid succession ever since the day in 1882 when the faculty...