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Another and perhaps the most important step towards the selection of the 'Varsity crew at Cambridge is the "Trial Eights." Substitute the word "Sixes," and it becomes applicable to Harvard as well as to Oxford and Cambridge. They - "the Trials" - are just getting under way here, and a short account...
THERE is hardly an improvement for the winter that, for the money spent on it, would give more general satisfaction, than a large lamp and reflector placed outside the south door of Memorial Hall. Now, on stormy evenings, every one of five hundred men must shuffle doubtfully down the steps...
The indignant supporters of down-trodden woman will not find, from the statistics presented here, many arguments to support their cause. There are sixty-seven colleges mentioned where women are taught together with men, and twenty-eight more where they alone are admitted. The fact that these institutions do not...
Of Caesar's grand old palace, looking down
THE Fall Races for the Graduates' cup were rowed last Saturday afternoon, over the Charles River course, from the Union Boat-House, one mile and return. There was only one entry for the single-scull and one for the double-scull race. Owing to rough water, and also to the...