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...inside fixtures, looked more like a Rebel war-ram than a practical rowing-boat. "Ready! Let her go!" and out they march, carrying the heavy boat between them as easily as though it were made of paper. At the word the boat is put in the water, the crew take their oars and get in, while the diminutive coxswain, looking still smaller in contrast with the big fellows around him, takes his seat...
...SNELLING, {Committee of Invitation.}W. T. Cox,Not long ago $ 100 or $ 150 was paid as a bonus for rooms. To-day $ 75 is given way to any one who will take a room off a man's hands...
...elsewhere announced that the scratch races will take place to-morrow. We wish earnestly to advise all who take the slightest interest in boating to enter their names for these races, in which the number of contestants, rather than their quality, is what is desired. We would most strongly urge those who make their first appearance here this year to improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities...
...Take, for instance, what is regarded as the mechanical part of newspaper work, - the preparation of telegraphic despatches. In this branch punctuation, capitalizing, paragraphing, and the art of clear expression are the first requisites; and when one has mastered these there is so little trouble with the technicalities of heading, etc., that one who has profited by his courses in themes can with a week's practice become a fair telegraphic editor...
...Take, again, the reportorial department. The familiarity with many subjects and the ability to take up any subject, both of which things a college education teaches, are of the greatest value. Then, too, a college graduate generally has an idea of "what to leave in the ink-bottle," - a point which is coming to be better appreciated...