Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like the Charles, where there are so many mud flats and where so many of the bridges are too low to pass under at high tide. It was used yesterday afternoon and proved much faster than the "John Harvard." It has a maximum speed of about fifteen and one-half knots an hour and will hold from twenty to thirty people. The old launch could not hold more than about fourteen people comfortably. The "Frank Thompson" is finished completely in mahogany...
Class dinners, so effective in arousing fellow feeling, are almost pitiful in one way, because of the impossibility of any one man knowing more than half of those present. It almost makes one wish that Harvard were not such a great place after all, and that men did not have so many and so varied interests...
Beginning with yesterday afternoon the band will hold a series of rehearsals preparatory to playing at the Yale and Princeton baseball games, and probably at the track games with Yale on May 14. Hitherto the band has always been a half passive organization that has come to life only for important athletic events and for Class Day. This year it hopes also to give a few yard concerts...
There are at present about thirty Harvard men mustered or enlisted in the Massachusett's Volunteer Naval Reserves, though only about half that number have actually volunteered in the regular U. S. Navy. Of the latter, the following men have been sent to the U. S. converted cruiser Prairie, the deep sea patrol boat for the New England coast: W. S. Burgess 1901, C. N. King '98, F. Woodbridge 1L., G. H. Dorr 1L, J. B. Moulton '98, F. M. Newton. The two latter men have enlisted as boat swain's mate and coxswain, respectively. B. F. Bell...
...half mile was the closest race of the games. Fullerton led until the last turn where he was passed by Alexander who won by a few yards. Ledyard was a close third...