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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Starbuck rowed in better form today than yesterday, and is fast mastering the Rice stroke. Von Saltza is fully recovered from his illness, and will doubtless be in perfect condition for the Harvard race...
...went upstream to the Brighton bridge, rowed down as far as the Boylston street bridge, and then took a stretch upstream again as far as the Stillman Infirmary, before returning to the University boathouse. The distance covered was about 4 and 1-2 miles. At times a fairly fast stroke was rowed, and at other times the crew merely paddled. In the single racing start that was attempted the University crew was able to pull ahead of the second. Considerable improvement in the first crew over Tuesday's practice was noticeable, particularly in the life and fire that...
ITHACA, N. Y., May 6.--The University lacrosse team was defeated by Cornell at Ithaca this afternoon by the score of 3 to 2. The game was played in a drizzling rain which made fast playing impossible. Wendell scored first for Harvard after about five minutes of play. Cornell tallied three times just before the end of the half on two shots by Captain Ricketson and one by Darling. Porter was forced to retire at the end of the half on account of injuries, and was replaced by Currie. The play was very fast and rough in the second half...
...long southern trip, in which it met some of the strongest teams in the country. Since then the team has been practicing steadily under the direction of A. W. Rice 2L. and D. P. Penhallow '03, and under this coaching a strong team has been developed. The attack is fast and aggressive, and the defense although composed for the most part of new men has played consistently throughout the season...
...under the auspices of the Graduates Club on "Reminiscences of Literary Men," Colonel Higginson talked mainly of literary men he had met in his youth, and told numerous anecdotes about James. Russell Lowell '38, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Mr. Higginson and Mr. Lowell became fast friends when children. They were in the habit of going to various lectures together, and while at one of these Mr. Higginson became acquainted with Emerson...