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...editorial comment and miscellaneous matter contained in the issue are fully up to the standard so well maintained by the Illustrated throughout the year. The forty illustrations are fitting and varied, and serve to liven up the issue, making the Senior Number one of the best that has yet appeared and one quite worth while securing...
...Altogether, the Illustrated suffers from over-specialization in photographs and expository articles. Its editors need illustrators, story-writers, verse-makers, whose work may set off articles like those of Dr. Williams and Mr. Parsons; and they ought to realize that pictures of Compressibility Machines, Seismographs, and Boylston Hall cannot liven any magazine which aims to be more spirited than an encyclopaedia...
...feature which served to liven the contest was a double steal by Babson and Wingate in the fourth inning. It was a farcial play, both the Harvard and Colby players showing a lamentable lack of baseball brains. With Babson on third and Wingate on second, a "squeeze" play was in order, but caption Potter, who was at bat, did not hit and Babson was caught off the base. He finally managed to get back safely, but Wingate had taken too great a lead from second, and was trapped between second and third, almost forcing Babson. The play resulted in Babson...
HARVARD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, June 17.- The 'Varsity crew is in perfect health and spirits, with the exception of Blake, whose cold is keeping him out of the boat. Kernan, who is in Blake's place at 2, is at present somewhat slow but will undoubtedly liven up by next Wednesday. That every one here is in a cheerful mood is an encouraging fact...
...work of the various squads is somewhat as follows. They first go through a short, sharp dumb-bell exercise, which is intended to liven them up and get their muscles into a pliable condition. Immediately after this they go to the rowing room, where they are put to work on the machines for about half an hour. Particular attention is paid to their body positions and to making them row together. Work on the machines is followed by a run, always in the open air unless the weather is particularly bad. The crews are taking rather longer runs than usual...