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...upper courses the Seine flows in broadly sweeping curves, and it continues meandering and serpenting until it gets some distance below Paris. In its lower courses it pursues a nearly straight line until it reaches the ocean, where it is tidal. The tide rushes up in a wave which is strong enough to capsize a small boat...
...lost, and 2 drawn. The winners were Ffoulke and Stowell in consultation playing a French Defence, and R. McC. Marsh in an Allgoier Gambitt; the drawing players were A. W. Ryder and E. E. Southard, both in Centre Gambits. Mr. Walcott played four Allgoier Gambits, two King's Gambits straight, two King's Gambits Declined, two Centre Gambits, one Scotch Game, one French Defence...
...Barger '98 recently won the junior court tennis championship of the Boston Athletic Association by defeating Mr. W. S. Patten in two straight sets...
During the past week arrangements have been completed whereby the annual Princeton-Columbia track games are to be held in Princeton this year for the first time. The new 220 yerds straight-away now being completed makes the athletic field more suitable for such meetings...
...debates is truly surprising and pleases me beyond measure. The men who are heard in the college debates have positive reality and naturalness, and these qualities are always most effective. How often some of us have heard 'Be natural,' 'Meet with force the resistance before you,' 'Speak out straight from the heart,' 'Suit the action to the thought.' Heeding these directions, because they have appealed forcibly to the common sense of those who heard them, Harvard men have become more impressive and convincing on the platform. These qualities have helped immeasurably to our success; and we like...