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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cornell crew candidates began regular training on Monday. The out look for a good crew this year is most favorable. Of last year's American crew seven are still in college, and five of the Henley crew are still eligible. Besides these old men, several very promising candidates have presented themselves, who will make strong bids for regular positions on the 'varsity...
Fifty-nine men began training for the Yale track team Saturday...
...York on Saturday last. He was born in 1834, and was graduated from Harvard in 1855, being a member of the class in which Alexander Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, and Robert Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general for bravery. He was wounded...
Work on the university and freshman crews began Saturday, and for the former, about twenty-five men reported outside of the members of last year's crew. A run of nearly four miles was taken, with body exercises and a very little tank work. There will be no race this year with Oxford or Cambridge, as it is impossible to arrange suitable dates. Our crew cannot go across early enough to suit the Englishmen, and they cannot hold their crew together long enough after their race to meet Yale. It was the general hope that this race might be arranged...
...lecture began with quotations of figures from the last census. It divided crime, in the legal sense, into crimes against government, society, property, person, and crime on the high seas. Of these, fully 50 per cent are committed against property, chiefly in the form of theft. It was also shown that criminals in the United States are largely of foreign extraction. They are of all degrees of education, including college bred...