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...been a rather marked improvement. They go to New London to-morrow, and Bob Cook goes with them. He has been up here for four of five days, not to coach the crew, for Bolton, '86, is the coach, and Cook refused to interfere with him, but to look on and give advice whenever it is wanted. A most pronounced feeling of hope has spread through the college since his arrival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1887 | See Source »

...shell is made entirely of cedar with the exception of the paper decking in the bow and stern, and some of the inside rigging. Instead of having the common swivel row-lock, the boat is rigged with the old-fashioned tholepins, which look very clumsy. The seats are rather smaller than those in use in the Water boats, and run upon wooden rollers. The oars are very long, and the blades are only 6 1-2 inches wide; the oars in general use are generally a full inch wider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard University Crew. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...editorial rooms, especially on the evening before going to press. Popularity is no doubt a desirable thing to any college organ, but the old adage of familiarity still holds there nevertheless. We have not the least objections to anybody coming into the rooms to consult exchanges and to look up special points of interest, but to use our sanctum all day long as a general rendezvous, which we are sorry to say, has been done by several men, is a little more than can consistently be asked of any board. - Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment | 6/14/1887 | See Source »

...variable game - both brilliant and bad in the field. Our battery worked with wonderful effect and the whole nine showed snap and cool calculation at the right moments. Such a victory as we gained yesterday recalls our career on the diamond two years ago and makes us look to the final result of the series with more assurance. Every man in the nine should receive warm applause of the whole college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/9/1887 | See Source »

...little short of supernatural power will bring upon Yale to-day the two defeats which we so earnestly desire. Harvard has five hundred more students than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/8/1887 | See Source »

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