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...this meet has been found to be of great value to the University team in preparation for the contest with Yale and the intercollegiate, and has given the coaches the first opportunity of watching the men in outdoor competition with an opposing college. Since practice on Soldiers Field was begun, there has been a great improvement in the University material. Confronted early in the year with a rather gloomy outlook. Captain Rand and the coaches have developed a team comparatively strong in almost every event. Last week's performances in the interclass games were exceedingly creditable considering the weather conditions...
...work of completing the Stadium, made possible by the aid recently offered by the class of 1879, has been begun by the Turner Construction Company of New York. The operations will not interfere with athletics on Soldiers Field. It is hoped that the work will be finished before the end of the College year, and it will surely be competed by August. Arrangements will be made so that the work will not interfere with the appearance of Miss Maude Adams on May 22 or with the Class Day Exercises...
Before College opens after the spring recess, the crew, the baseball team, and the lacrosse team will have begun their schedules. This afternoon on the Charles the University crew rows against Columbia in what we hope will be a successful attempt to make up for the defeat of two years ago. Coach rice is an experienced leader, and although he has been obliged to make numerous eleventh-hour shifts in the Columbia boat, he will probably send out a very powerful crew. The University eight was considerably set back by Captain Severance's resignation in February, but fortunately a good...
Many things must be decided on by the authorities before any actual work can be begun, but the most important preparation is the collection of the necessary funds. When this is finished it will not take the Corporation long to decide on the situation and the plans for construction...
...class crews also afford a chance to learn rowing and as such, men without experience are especially desired. Of late years the sentiment seems to have grown up that unless rowing was begun in the Freshman year there is no use in taking it up. If a man wants to row, lack of experience should never hold him back. The man who really wants to row can soon learn the sport...