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...words can describe a stroke Mr. Watson-Taylor's description of the Cambridge stroke is almost exactly what we are now working for in our crew. His criticism of last year's Harvard crew is just and much more accurate than most of the criticisms made upon the crew. The crew undoubtedly recovered badly and finished badly. The faults in the recover were the most telling faults, though perhaps not the most apparent. But Mr. Watson-Taylor has assumed that the crew rowed as Mr. Storrow wished them to; this is distinctly not so. While we had faults that were...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...
...Gymnasium. For a long time the present gymnasium has been a disgrace to Yale, it being in ever way unfitted for the purpose. The work of tearing down the buildings on the lot where the new gymnasium is to be erected is well under way and it at last looks as if the long wished for building was soon to be a reality...
From the advance sheets of the catalogue a very encouraging account of the Professional Schools can be gathered. The Law School shows quite a gain in numbers over last year while the Medical department has more than doubled the number of two years ago. In the Divinity School the gain is not quite so marked but there is a slight increase over former years. A movement is now on foot to establish a Musical Department here. A committee has been appointed to solicit the necessary funds and the prospects are good that the plan will be carried...
...last meeting of the corporation a gift of $50,000 was received for the purpose of founding a chair in Bibilical Literature in the Academic Department in memory of the late ex-President Woolsey, the professorship in it to be named after him. Through the generosity of Mr. Sloane of New York, who has already done much for Yale, a new Scholarship has been presented to the University for the promotion of studies in physics...