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...RACE for single-sculls had been arranged to take place yesterday between Messrs. Le Moyne, Danforth, and Denton, under the direction of the executive committee of the H. U. B. C., - the winner to go to Saratoga as the representative of the College. The roughness of the water interfered with the plans of the committee, and the race had to be postponed until to-morrow, when it will take place (D. V.) over the Charles River course at ten o'clock...
...same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident, and he ate eighteen tarts within the time, having forty-five seconds to spare. Swiddle is a handsome man, who dresses to perfection, ordering his clothes from Smiler & Compa, Bond St., W., and he never...
...monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial town it was in "Ye Olden Tyme"; but Faneuil Hall, the Old South, the Old North, St. Paul's, Brimstone Corner, King's Chapel, and the Old State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle lost and a cause won, the tall, gray, melancholy shaft on Bunker Hill rises; 'rises till it meets the sun in his coming, while the earliest light of morning gilds it, and parting day lingers...
...libraries, - that of the city of Boston and the Boston Athenaeum, incomparable in management and size, - improving its opportunities for study of the sciences unsurpassed by any American city; cruising around the harbor, saluting the "Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application to a stated task...
Students were prohibited from going "into any Taverne, vittaileing house, or Inne to eate or drink," without such reasons as may be approved of; from using tobacco, and from having in their rooms "strong beare, wine, or strong water, or any other enebriateing drink...