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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Minnie Palmer is always with us, and last night at the Tremont she presented a play new to Boston, A Mile a Minute, introducing the wonderful English locomotive, running at full speed...
Butterworth, the full-back of the Columbia A. C. eleven, of Washington and West and Fordyce, half back and full-back of last season's Pennington Seminary, will enter Yale this fall...
...much importance,-with an incidental sketch of the Wentworth House, at New Castle, Maine, which is very charming. Miss Agnes Repplier, in an amusing and thoughtful paper, called "Pleasure: A Heresy," appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit of enjoyment. The article is full of good-natured banter at the expense of the self-consciously cultivated persons, who demand from both literature and art, not pleasure, but some serious moral purpose. A review of Mr. Aldrich's new volume of poetry, of one or two French novels, and of Mr. Sargent's Silva of North...
...last three or four days the men have been rowing the full stroke on the sliding seats. Since they have done this they have begun to show some of their rowing style. They have also shown a couple of very decided faults which are general right through the crew. The first is a lack of snap in taking hold of the water, the second is a habit of going back too far. To these may be added a slowness in getting the oar in the water. The new men are also unsteady on the recover, especially just before catching...
...Post, 155, is an old man. He exhibits some stiffness, however, does not keep his back straight, and is slow at full reach and catch...