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...SALE.- The well-known cabin cat Cocheco, very fast and able, winner of many prizes last summer. Racing length 18.6; finely built by Borden last spring; also a 15 footer, yawl or cat rig. For full particulars apply to H. E. Yerxa, 37 Lancaster street, North Cambridge...
...Storey closed with words of good advice. The world, he said, was full of good things, and there is nothing in the world which a man cannot have if he is willing to pay the world's price for it. The coin in which he must pay is his life. Pecuniary fortune a man can lose several times, but life can only be lost once. Every man, therefore, should be careful of his life and remember that the country needs men today just as much...
Yesterday afternoon the lacrosse squad began harder practice which will be kept up from now on, for the present at least, on Holmes Field. For the first time enough men came out to make two full sides, fourteen on each, and for an hour and a half the regular game with two goals was played...
Great interest centered in the mile intercollegiate relay race between the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. The teams were composed of four men, each running a full mile, winner counting one point, second, two, third, three, etc., the team getting the least number of points being declared the winner. Grant of Harvard set the pace for the first half mile, doing it in 2m. 35s. and at the three-quarter mark was neck and neck with Orton. Orton proved the better man, and won by about 20 yards in 4m. 52 3/5s. Harvard won the race, 14 to 22. Order...
...there were no special laboratories at Harvard during these years, it is difficult to understand how chemistry and physics and the other sciences were taught. When Professor Cooke was first appointed a full professor he was unusully young and unexperienced, but it was owing to his zeal and energy that the first chemical laboratory was instituted. It was in the northwestern basement of University Hall, the northeastern basement being occupied by a baker's shop. Professor Cooke first ousted the baker in extending his laboratory, and a year or two later obtained more convenient quarters upstairs, effecting many of these...