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Three men were dropped from the candidates for the freshman crew last Saturday. There are now sixteen men working...
...graduates from the professional schools. But could not this be accomplished in other ways? The true fault lies, not in our academic department, but in the preparatory and lower schools. There is no reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than the regular, and which could in their turn influence the lower schools. Another year ought...
...thought will enable the crew to get a sharper catch when they first get on the water and, it is hoped, will save the time that has formerly been wasted in putting snap and vim into the crew's work. These improvements will enable the crew to row from sixteen to eighteen strokes per minute right away, whereas formerly this rate was never attained until the latter part of February...
...described some experiments which he made during the recess on the melting of ice under pressure. The trial was made with a hydraulic ram crushing the ice in a steel cylinder. The ice was not liquefied by a pressure of twelve tons to the square inch, equal to sixteen hundred atmospheres or to the weight of a mass of ice twelve miles thick. A series of experiments on the subject will be carried...
...fall handicap road race of the Bicycle club took place yesterday afternoon. Only seven of the sixteen men entered were on hand when the first man was started. The handicaps were as follows: E. A. Bailey, '91, scratch; K. Brown, '91, 43 seconds; P. W. Davis, '93, 2m., 8s.; T. Barron, '91, 2m., 8s.; R. W. Holmes, '92, 2m., 20s.; A. H. Williams, '91, 3m., 25s.; Sheffield...