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...between the University crew and Columbia, which will be rowed a week from today, has been made, and already the University crew shows signs of decided improvement. Tappan and Richardson are now the only two men in the crew rowing in the same positions which they occupied a week ago. Severance has been needed more at 3 than at 7, where Amberg has shows his ability in form and can probably be relied upon to row a two-mile race. The most noticeable fault has been that at every stroke the boat has swung to starboard, showing that...
Eight of the seventeen new tennis courts, which are being constructed in the north east corner of Soldiers Field, will be ready for use today, if the nets, which were ordered a few days ago and which are due this morning, arrive in time. The sub-grading of cinders was laid about three days ago, and the final covering has since been spread and completely rolled and packed. The wire back nets were completed yesterday afternoon and the courts will be laid out this morning. They will be open for use to all members of the University...
John Phillips Bigelow '09, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died Thursday evening at Philadelphia, where he was operated upon for appendicitis a week ago. It was expected that he would recover, but peritonitis set in and he died Thursday evening at 8.30 o'clock...
...Francis, defending the position taken by the government, presented the problem of Russian conditions from a point of view opposite to that of Aladyin and Tschaykovsky, who spoke in the Union about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known...
...difference in time between this country and England. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which was won by Oxford two years ago...