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...Worcester High School crew defeated the Freshman eight over the mile and a half course on Lake Quinsigamond Saturday afternoon, winning by a length of open water in 8 minutes, 7 seconds. The school crew got ahead at the start, and, rowing a stroke of 40 to the minute, gradually increased the lead. The conditions for the race were very favorable to the lighter crew and their quick stroke, as there was but a slight breeze blowing down the course...
...clock Drinkwater and Mifflin were at the wickets. Shortly after the game was resumed Mifflin went out on a fly to De Motte but Drinkwater with Tyng as his companion at the bat continued to guard his wicket. His stand was cut short, however, when he slid at full length on the slippery grass and was run out. The remaining men went out quickly under the swift balls of Scott and Patton...
...Princeton the main speeches will be given by W. A. Babson '01, W. E. Hope '01 and R. S. Steen '01. The alternates are A. J. Byles '03, F. W. Fort '01, S. B. Scott 1G., and R. W. Sutton '01. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length, the rebuttal speeches five. The judges will be: Gen. A. D. Andrews, T. L. James and J. E. Parsons, all of New York...
Annapolis defeated the Yale second crew in a two-mile race on the Potomac Saturday by less than a boat length...
...hoped that this would be followed at no long interval by a final Report, and by a volume of plates on a large scale, in which the remains of the ancient city should be carefully presented. Various unavoidable hindrances prevented the fulfilment of this design. At length, in 1898, the Institute was obliged to issue an incomplete final Report. It now proposes to publish the long-delayed volume of plates, from the drawings under the superintendence of Mr. F. H. Bacon, one of the original members of the expedition; but to enable us to do so, two hundred subscribers...