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...secured, and will be opened as soon as the requisite number of workers is made up. The institution will be under the superintendence of W. H. Wheel lock '98, who has been very successful in work of this sort in New York City, and he will be assisted by fourteen others, the plan being that two men shall go in to the club on every evening in the week. Of these fourteen eight have already been secured, so that there are not many places left. Any member of the University wishing to join in the work may send his name...
...barges, but the flood ice, coming in with the tide, obliged them to return after an hour. The crew was coached by Armstrong and rowed as follows: Stroke, Miller; 7, Treadway; 6, Dater; 5, Cross; 4, Longacre; 3, Beard; 2, Holcomb; bow, Wheelwright. Fourteen men will go to the training table on March 15, who are, in addition to those mentioned above, Judd, Langford, Simpson, Coonley, and Bailey, who is expected to return to college shortly...
Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
...decline was probably due to the return from the War of young men whose education had been interrupted. They naturally entered the professional schools. In 1868-69 the percentage of College students was again at 50 per cent; but from that limit it rose gradually, during a period of fourteen years, until in 1882-83 it reached 65 per cent. These fourteen years cover most of the changes by which the standards of our professional schools were raised, and the number of their students temporarily reduced. From that maximum it has since steadily declined, until in the year...
...twenty-seven men who started training for the Columbia 'varsity crew only fourteen are left. Walter B. Peet '85, who has always taken a great interest in Columbia crews, is coaching the candidates. John H. Prentice '97, captain of last year's freshman crew, has been appointed captain of the 'varsity this year. The candidates are: J. H. Prentice '97, G. H. Carter '96, Hamilton Fish '95, W. O. Gennert '96, W. C. Hubdy '97, J. D. Irvin '96, E. MacGregor '96, R. M. Miles '96, S. S. Norton '96, H. E. Pierrepont '97, R. W. Pressprich...