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...crews put this coaching into effect, the results were clearly noticeable; the boat ran faster during the recovery, and seemed lighter at the catch. If the men can thoroughly master the technique of these points, if they can put them into practice at a high stroke, it will materially brighten the prospects for the Yale race...
...strengthen debating in this way, and we think that an innovation in the line of the experiment which Yale is reported to have begun, might be of practical value in Cambridge. The object should be, not so much to arrange dinners or other entertainments on special occasions, as to brighten up the regular meetings...
Harvard's representatives at the Berkeley Athletic Club and Clyde Park games made a showing that reflects great honor on the college and brighten not a little Harvard's chances of winning the Mott Haven cup. With one world's record broken and one equaled by members of the H. A. A. the college may feel confident of winning one event in which Columbia hoped for first place, and possibly one which Princeton expects to win. On the other hand Yale has strengthened her hold on several events. The intercollegiate games, therefore, will be unusually close, and will probably...
...captain and members of the 'varsity crew have been busy overcoming obstacles which have hitherto hindered their success. The announcement that Harvard is now sure of a tank, and that the crew can practice in the harbor long before they could get on the river cannot fail to brighten the prospects of the crew. So far so good, and were it not for the fact that seasons which open most auspiciously generally end most gloomily, we should have cause to congratulate ourselves on the athletic outlook for next spring. But whether history will repeat itself in this particular instance, time...
...taken to have them safe. A brilliant red dye has, however, been discovered, which is made from coal tar by the use of arsenic, and this enters into the composition of Pompeian red and various browns, where its use would be least suspected. Arsenic is also used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since the arsenic gets into the paper in such various ways, it is impossible to tell anything about a paper by mere inspection. Of two papers apparently alike, one may be very dangerous and the other perfectly harmless. Greens, reds, browns, blues...