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...scratch races between four freshman eights were rowed Saturday at 12.30. The weather and water were favorable to a successful race, and the contest consequently proved very interesting. The attendance of spectators was large, although the freshmen themselves did not turn out in such large numbers as might have been expected. The crews were made up as follows...
...crews must know how to swim, again suggests the great need of a swimming bath, where students can learn and exercise this valuable accomplishment. It is well known that, at present, many of the men who try for the crews are unable to take care of themselves in the water, and the liability to accidents is really much greater than is generally supposed. A man who tries to row in a shell when he cannot swim is running a very great risk. Every one recollects the accident that happened to the '83 crew last spring. In that boat there were...
...other day I marked 98 deg. in the shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as indeed I did, for we Harvard men are apt to think ill of any graduation but our own,) but it was a poor consolation." - [J. R. Lowell...
Overseers. Meeting at No. 70 Water street, Boston...
...apart from the annoyance caused to the occupants of the building in the manner described by the communicant, it would seem that the dampness necessarily engendered by damp sand, mortar and stagnant water, would be very detrimental to the health of those occupying the rooms over the cellar. This in itself calls for an immediate abatement of the nuisance...