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...wishes to take his exercise in this way. A comparatively new and commodious boat-house is, on the payment of a small fee, at the disposal of any one desiring to make use of it. After a spin on the river, hot and cold water and a warm room in which to dress are furnished. No hardships have to be undergone, no privations suffered, and, in fact, nothing remains to add attraction to this deservedly proper branch of athletics. But how different things were a score and a half years ago! Then boating was in its infancy at Harvard...
...vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight-oared barge, and wishing to vie with her on the water sent a challenge to row on Lake Winnipiseogee. Harvard accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked out to represent Harvard. The race took place on August 3. The "Oneida" was victorious both in this and in the next...
...ladies of the W. C. T. U. learning that another class drank the health of their society in a saloon on reading the letter of congratulation to the sophomores. felt complimented, but would have preferred to have had the healths drank in cold water. - Cornell...
...obnoxious odor which pervaded the yard and its immediate neighborhood last Saturday morning, was caused by the smouldering of the cotton felting fastened around the water pipes which lead from University to Thayer. The smouldering was due to the close proximity of the steam pipes to the water pipes...
...noted carefully the irregularities on the field when it was covered with snow-ice; and unless the gentleman would wish to cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field...