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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Single sculling race.--Won by S. Gaillard, Yale; second, N. P. Darling '17; third, B. Carpenter, Jr., '16; fourth, G. Burton, Yale. Time, 5m., 51s. The Henley signal system proved a great success in that it enabled both those on Harvard bridge and at the Union Boat Club to know the positions of the boats all the way down...
...University, that very often men in one department lose sight completely of the work carried on in other departments. It is therefore often worth while to call to mind the progress which is being made in certain advanced fields, usually not familiar to the undergraduate. Doubtless few Harvard men know, for instance, that the Physics Department is one of the most active and progressive in the country, and that its work has attracted international attention...
...expedition which sails next Saturday stands for the highest type of heroism. Its members are ready to give their lives, if necessary, to help humanity. They are going to aid a people of whom they know nothing. At the same time they are serving their own country, for if the disease ever spreads to America, its ravages would undoubtedly be terrible. The names of those who are setting out on this mission will not soon be forgotten by their University...
...CRIMSON management announces a thrilling game with Phi Beta Kappa for next Friday, when the midnight oilers will be convinced that they do not know everything...
...custom to start boat races with the sterns of the crafts even. The accurate anchoring of scows and the holding of the sterns by experienced men has invariably been arranged with considerable forethought. At the finish line the first bow to cross indicates the winner. Now I do not know what the actal lengths of the two shells used by Harvard and Yale were last year, nor the length of the shells in the Freshman races of 1901 and 1905, but that eights vary in length from 62 to 65 feet according to the ideas of the builders...