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...course will be slightly altered this year. The flag at the start has been shifted eastward fifteen feet. This will give the west crew deeper water than it has formerly had. For two miles the course is unchanged, but after the two-mile flag the course bends west, then strikes straight for the finish. The finish flag will be nearer the Groton shore than usual to avoid the docks used in building the new railroad bridge which will cross the river here...
Yale has a very strong crew. Whether Harvard can show a stronger one cannot be told until the Cambridge eight has been seen on the water...
Those who believe in "signs" are confident that the 'Varsity crew will win this year, as the Halcyon crew of St. Paul's have won, and their victory has always in the past been a forerunner of Yale's defeat on the water...
...months the men on the crew have been training hard and faithfully, and in less than two weeks the contest they have been working to win is to take place. There is no doubt that the best material available has been utilized, and the crew Harvard puts on the water is the best that careful coaching and faithful work of captain and men could make. We believe, in spite of the continuous disparagement of the crew that is heard on all sides, that the eight this year is a strong one, and that its chances for victory at New London...
...book, "A Contribution to American Thalassography," supplies a vacant place in the literature of oceanic basins. The book is the result of several cruises on board the steamer "Blake" of the U. S. Coast Survey. The materials collected furnish valuable information for the study of animal life in deep water, and the conclusions arrived at cause new views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida could not be explained...