Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...situation. Both Columbia crews have arrived, but Yale has not yet made its appearance. The university crew of Columbia is much lighter than the one of last year, but rows in far better form and is undoubtedly much faster, at least for a short distance. The freshmen are a light, quick set of men, but do not row in good form, and one wonders that they get over the water as fast as they do. Both crews seem determined to make a good record...
...better crew than the university. However, the latter eight with their pretty stroke make good time and row fairly well together. They are coached by Mr. Jasper Goodwin, who uses the launch "Carrie Goodwin," for the purpose. The men are all new in a university boat and are rather light...
...Columbia freshmen are lighter than our men from '87 by about ten pounds on the average, and one or two of their men are light for even a two mile pull. They lack the regularity of their university eight, but will have a week longer in which to prepare themselves The Yale crew are expected at their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook...
...quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition, inherited tastes, and transmitted opinions; the educational practices of today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time saw a great light which shone out of darkness and they worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics is demanded for those later studies which have proved...
Lost-Brown overcoat, light weight. Makers' name, Churchill and Bean, inside. Any information gladly received at 33 Holyoke...