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Yesterday afternoon a scrub crew tried out the new English shell, taking a 10 mile paddle up the river beyond the Watertown Arrenal. The members of the crew found difficulty in getting used to the thole-pin rowlocks and short slides which mark the rigging of an English as compared with an American boat. The shell rolled badly and the men failed to get together, so that the boat spaced poorly...
...Yale found considerable difficulty in defeating Washington and Jefferson College last Saturday and after having been played to a standstill in the first half succeeded in winning out in the second half, 11 to 0. As the field at New Haven was very slippery, straight football was necessary and no forward passes were successful. Coy and Wylie, two of the regular Yale backs were kept out of the game, as they are overtrained...
...Sophomore football team was defeated 6 to 0 yesterday afternoon at Concord, Mass., by Middlesex School. Considering that this was the Sophomores first game, the team played very well. Middlesex found it impossible to gain a yard through the Sophomore line, and the only serious weakness displayed by the Harvard team was the poor defensive work of the ends...
...others who may be interested, to the exceptionally interesting opportunity to study present political conditions and methods in their typical forms, which is now being afforded by the approaching municipal campaign in Boston, Perhaps no better example of the professional politician, his principles, and his work, can be found than is shown by the present Boston city government. These conditions not only make the situation interesting, but also are such as should afford college men peculiar satisfaction in studying and combating them. They do not exist here alone but prevail, to a greater or less degree, throughout the whole country...
...working hard to represent Harvard creditably, but Saturday's game should serve as a warning to coaches and players alike. A supposedly weaker team carried off practically all the honors in the use of new and open plays, and in several other respects the Harvard team was tried and found wanting. A general condemnation of the eleven would be as unjust as it is unwarranted, but to say that the team as a whole came up to reasonable expectations would be to wander far from the truth. It required the spur of an opponent's touchdown to a waken...