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...North-avenue to one or two streets beyond Porter's station on the Fitchburg railroad. Here we must turn to the right and, once turned, we must "follow our noses," as well as the streets will allow, until Tufts College of renown appears on a not very distant summit straight before us. This famous institution once sighted, we must not fail to climb the hill and get the view. The first thing however to attract our attention will be the reservoir, which is confidently close to the college buildings. The swimming tank which so many Harvard men have longed...
...moderately high tower, which is itself considerably elevated. From this we may get a very good and quite an extensive view of the surrounding country. Beyond the cemetery we have a choice of two pleasures, of which it may be said that "either is preferable," If we go straight ahead we soon pass the scene of the Carlton murder, which is on the left, about a quarter or half a mile past one cemetery. Thence we pass on to Watertown and beyond Watertown to the famous and beautiful Newtons. If, after leaving the cemetery, we take our first opportunity...
...spectacle which occurred in a Senior committee meeting of a man voting for himself in sixteen straight ballots is both ludicrous and sad.-[Amherst Student...
Episode of the Yale-Wesleyan freshman game: "A Yale man had a badlooking eye, but later on, when unlawfully tackled, focussed his unimpaired member on a Wesleyan man sufficiently accurately to reach him twice straight from the shoulder."-[Spirit of the Times...
...feathering, dipping, in a word, of watermanship, are very serious and only surmountable by longer experience, but the great aim of a crew eight months before its expected race should be to acquire the fundamental qualities absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired by constant care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove...