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...races for the university fours and freshman eights were held in the morning, before the university eight-oared race. The fours started at the finish line opposite Red Top and rowed over the last two miles of the course to the Navy Yard. The eights rowed two miles from the Navy Yard to the rail-road bridge. In point of closeness the four-oared race was the best of the day. Both crews started at 36 to the minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag...
...first twenty strokes. Rowing 36 to the minute Harvard passed into the second half-mile over two and one-half lengths ahead. Soon after this Stroke Newton dropped the beat to 32 and the boat forged ahead with every powerful well-executed dip of the oars. Entering the last mile Newton again shoved the stroke up to between 35 and 36, a pace which was kept up to the finish. At the mile Harvard was seven lengths ahead, and at the finish line from 14 to 16 lengths separated the two shells...
Jesse Edwin Waid '10, of Denver, Colorado, was elected captain of the University crew for next year. Waid prepared for College at Denver High School. He rowed 5 on his Freshman crew, and for the last two years has rowed 5 and 7 in the University boat
Eight honorary degrees were conferred by the University at Commencement last June. President Eliot received the Honorary M.D., which is a unique distinction, and also the LL.D. The degrees were conferred by President Lowell in the following words...
...college crews. In the fall of 1906 he entered Harvard, finishing the work for his degree in one year, and gaining an honorary scholarship. In the autumn of his Sophomore year he went out for the CRIMSON, became an editor, the next year managing editor, and last spring was elected president of the Board. During his Junior year he studied in the Law School, and was this year to have been one of the advisers, from the Senior class and Law School of the incoming Freshmen...