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...racing shells have been ordered by the navy of E. Waters and Son, the well-known builders of Troy, N. Y. Contrary to the usual custom, the model for the shell to be used by the university crew and that for the freshman crew are exactly similar. The freshman shell is to be ready March 1, while the university shell will not be finished until a month after that time. Each boat is to be furnished with the most improved appliances, and when finished will cost about $400. It is a noticeable fact in the history of Yale-Harvard races...
...senior class at Exeter, five will probably go to Dartmouth, two to Cornell, and one each to Brown, Williams, Wesleyan, and the Troy Polytechnic Institute...
...novel feature in the Paris Exposition of 1889 will be an exhibit of all methods and details relating to the institutions for the higher education of men and women in America. Mr. C. Wellman Parks, Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., has kindly consented to take charge of this section of the exhibit and has sent circulars to the various American colleges soliciting their co-operation. The part in which Professor Parks begs the students to assist him most is in collecting as many photographs of buildings, faculties, classes, athletic teams, literary societies, etc., as possible...
...Troy Polytechnic states that one of the sections at the Paris exposition next summer will be devoted to college journalism...
Some person at the Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N. Y., presumably a member of '91, defaced the freshly cleaned and repaired ceiling of the topographical drawing room with the number of that class. The director attempted, by questioning, to discover the culprit, but each member of the class, with but few exceptions, refused to state whether or not he was the guilty person. The matter was brought before the faculty and it was recommended that the class be suspended for one week, but no decision has as yet been reached...