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This afternoon at 4.30, the annual class races will be rowed over the usual course in the Charles River basin. The start is from the Longwood Bridge straight down to the Harvard Bridge, thence with a slight turn to the Union Boat Club, a few feet this side of which is the finish line. An extremely close contest is looked for, as the crews are to all appearances more evenly matched than last year...
...entire third story is devoted to an exercise hall with an elevated running track, one-sixteenth of a mile in length. The size of the room will be about 100x80 feet...
...marble from Carrara has been used in the construction of each of the rooms. The first floor, aside from the spacious vestibule of white marble which runs the whole width of the building, is devoted to baths, rowing and swimming tanks. The rowing tanks, two in number, are 50x27 feet and 7 feet deep, each surrounded by white marble ambulatories four feet wide. The swimming tank of the same size is also surrounded with marble ambulatories and lounging galleries wainscotted five feet high all around with Italian marble, and is graded so as to be from five to eight feet...
Gold medal to first and silver medal to second man in each event. An entrance fee of fifty cents must accompany each entry. The track is 530 yards to the lap; width 16 feet, 20 feet in the stretch. Entries close Saturday, April 30th, with Parke H. Davis, treasurer, 2 S.W., Princeton...
...Princeton foot ball eleven has decided to row this spring, to get themselves into trim for foot ball practice next fall. Their boat was purchased from the Dauntless Boat Club, of New York, at a cost of $275. It is made of cedar and thirty-five feet long, by four wide and a foot and a half deep. There are positions for six oarsmen, with sliding seats, and it is rowed from the gunwale. The boat is in excellent condition, though very heavy, weighing about 500 pounds. The old boat house is to be refitted...