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July 21, 1855. Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass., one and a-half miles down stream and back, Iris, Harvard, (eight oared parges), 22m; Y. Y., Harvard (four-oared barge), 22.03; Nereid-Yale, (six oared) 23.38: Nautilus-Yale, (six-oared), 22.38.
"Professor Waldstein, the head of the American Archaeological Institute at Athens, has scored a notable discovery in excavation on the Acropolis. It is in the form of a beautifully preserved head of Iris belonging to the frieze of the Parthenon, which exactly fits and completes a portion of slab at...
July 21, 1855. Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass., one-and-a-half miles down stream and back.- Iris, Harvard (8-oared barge), 22m.; Y. Y., Harvard (4 oared barge), 22.03: Nereid, Yale (sixoared), 23.38; Nautilus, Yale (6-oared), 24, 38.
The members of the class of '46 may be said to have originated boating here. In their junior year they bought an eight-oared barge called the "Oneida," and challenged the seniors to a race. The seniors accepted, and formed the "Iris Boat Club," in order to rival the juniors...
"The well-clad and suave Harvard student now dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur...