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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...substitute four were also on the water in the shell which they will use at New London. Stroke, Greenough; 3, Graydon; 2, Foster; bow, Bowditch; cox., Stokes. This boat is an improvement on the coxswainless four used by the Freshman substitutes last year, and the crew will be better able to give the University four trial races. Both University and Freshman crews will occupy the same quarters as last year...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock the nine will play the second game of the series with the University of Pennsylvania on Soldiers Field. Harvard won the first game on May 21 by timely batting. Pennsylvania made almost as many hits and did better work in the field. Since that time Harvard has lost three games out of four, and Pennsylvania has won three games and tied one out of five. Following is Pennsylvania's record since the first game...
...Gallaudet took out the University eight for about an hour, and gave them several short spurts, but the work was light and the coaching was only on general faults. The men seemed to put more life into their work than at New Haven, but the form was little better. F. G. Brown '01 coached the freshmen, but gave them only light work. The freshman crew is still unsettled, and several different arrangements will be tried before the order is settled. All the men have been allowed to break training, as it is the intention of Dr. Gallaudet to work them...
...University crew yesterday rowed several short stretches and although the stroke was very low the boat travelled better than it has done for some time. The men held their slides better and finished the stroke stronger than here tofore. As Bullard's ankle is still sore, Fitzgerald continued at 2. Harding still holds his place...
...Almanac," which has been a feature of the last few numbers of the Lampoon, is amusingly and cleverly drawn in the current number, as is also the usual sprinkling of illustrated definitions and nonsense rhymes. We are used to expect, however, a better centre page than appears in this issue. The drawing is so roughly and carelessly done that any humor which may have been originally in the idea is lost. "Hypnotizing a Volcano," is particularly amusing to those who have taken Geology...