Word: neared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Besides these races the management has arranged for several others to take place in the near future. On May 27 the senior crew will have a mile and a half race with the B. A. A. over the regular course in the basin. The prizes are to include cups and a banner the same as last year. This event was won by the Weld last spring. It has further been decided to enter a junior crew in the Harlem regatta which takes place in New York, May 30, and to give the second Freshman crew a two-mile race with...
...mile race yesterday noon from the Union Boat House to the Longwood bridge. The First crew got off first and at the Harvard Bridge was about a half a length ahead; the second then pulled up and passed the First boat by a short distance. From that point to near the finish it was anyone's race, both crews spurting hard; the First 'Varsity, however, drew slightly ahead and won out by less than five feet...
...Parke '98, the second speaker for Harvard, said in part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...following Harvard men are members of Battery A, Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which has been ordered to do coast defense duty at Galloupe Point, near Swampscot, one section will leave this morning, and the other next week: T. W. Peirce 1900, J. H. Sherburne, Jr., '99, D. Farrington 1900, H. G. Brooks '98, E. L. Sanborn '98, D. H. Bradlee '98, C. Jackson '98, P. Dove '98, E. L. Oliver '99, C. S. Stevens '99, R. B. Baker '99, E. B. Stanwood '99, E. B. Barstow '99, M. Stearns '99, J. H. Cunningham 1 Med., 0. Ames...
Circulars have been sent to a number of graduates asking for subscriptions for the proposed new dormitory to cost about $50,000, to be built near the present college grounds. On account of the war, however, any systematic canvass of alumnae for funds has been indefinitely poetponed...