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...first regatta of the Harvard Canoe Club took place on the Charles river course Saturday afternoon, and proved a complete success. The weather was almost perfect and the stiff west wind blowing down the course gave an opportunity for each to show all the skill he could command in managing the frail crafts. The first event was the sailing race, in which six men entered. The breeze made things very lively at the start, but the canoes got off pretty well together. The rough water around Union boat-honse bothered the contestants considerably, and soon three of them dropped...
...small knot of Harvard man cheered on the contestants from Cambridge. The day in New York, as well as here, was warm, and although too much for some of the contestants took any chilliness out of the air and warmed up the men to their work as the records show...
...next in order. Harvard did not show up well among the eleven entries. Walker tailed in toward the end and Root only showed himself in the middle of the crowd at the finish. Faries of the University of Pennsylvania, won with a record of 4m. 45 1-5s., and H. L. Mitchell of Yale, was second. To contest...
Recent statistics show the cost of living at German universities, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans are becoming fonder of spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college...
...June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An interesting article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals...