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...Williams University crew have been rowing on the Charles River during the present week, in order to be under the supervision of Mr. P. C. Chandler of the Class of '72 at Williams. The crew have used the boats of the Matthews Club during the week, but they expect to get their shell from Blakey to-day. They are at a training table at Memorial Hall, and express themselves very well satisfied with the fare...
...accompanies them. The crew rows twice a day between ten and one in the morning, and in the afternoon to Watertown and back. This evening at 6.30 they will row over the Union Boat-House Course on time, in their new shell. The crew will return to Williams next week, to pass their annual examinations, and on the 3d of July they expect to go to Saratoga...
...annual supper of the Institute of 1770 took place at Parker's, on Saturday evening, June 19. The annuals, which were to come the first of the week, kept many members of the society away, but the forty who were present passed a remarkably pleasant evening. The dinner was excellently served, and the speeches which followed were sufficiently informal to be thoroughly enjoyed. To the committee, Messrs. Heminway, Humason, and Martin, many thanks are due for the able manner in which they performed the duties assigned to them...
...becomes our painful duty, this week, to chronicle the death of Professor Joseph Win-lock, Director of the Observatory. In him we feel that we have lost, not only the eminent scientific investigator, but the revered and loved instructor. Ever ready to appreciate merit and aid the deserving, it is not too much to say that he won the personal affection of every one who knew him. He had complained of indisposition for several days; but nothing serious was apprehended until Thursday night, when his malady suddenly increased, causing his death at an early hour on Friday morning...
...exchanges this week contain letters from abroad, both of which are so thoroughly flat, and one of which is so glaringly inaccurate, that they really deserve a notice. The first and worst is a letter from Sicily, which fills nearly three columns of the College Mercury...