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...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; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale...
...Every pleasant afternoon in spring the crews may be seen rowing on the river, as also a host of clumsy inexperienced oarsmen, paddling about for mere pleasure. First and most important of all the various crews is the Eton crew itself, which presents a splendid appearance. Eton has a thousand students, and, as we might expect, the picked eight from so large a school is a strong crew. Each building or dormitory has a crew, and there occurs every year a race between these representative crews which corresponds somewhat to the Harvard class races. There are also at Eton many...
...eight hundred members and includes clubs in every part of the country. Under its auspices is held every year a meet at some place easy of access, at which time races, etc., are indulged in, and canoe matters are talked over. This year it is to be at the Thousand Isles...
...Head," are left to the president and fellows of Harvard college ; and $5,000 for the astronomical observatory at Harvard college. In a remote contingency the sum of $100,000 will be divided among several institutions, one of which is Harvard. The whole estate is valued at several hundred thousand dollars, and Harvard is one of the four residuary legatees...
...Boston and Albany R. R., on account of the general reduction of fares will not issue any reduced rate tickets for those wishing' to accompany the nine this year. Thousand-mile tickets, at the rate of two cents per mile, which can be used by a number of men going in a party, will reduce the fare somewhat...