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...annual University race between the two old colleges is rowed at New London on the last Friday afternoon of June, a greater number of the people who are interested in the competition can attend it - and at a far less sacrifice of money, time, and comfort - than could attend it at any other place. Last summer's crowd was much larger than any which had previously assembled on any similar occasion in America, and it is fair to presume that if next June's crews are believed to be evenly matched, the attendance will be doubled. But New London offers...
...New London is indeed no place for a long-drawn-out "regatta tournament," or series of races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds...
...prove this last remark would require my entering into minute details, which would not interest your readers, and so I must content myself with the simple assertion that quite a number of little improvements which the New-Londoners had planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably...
...year 19 - a new weathercock was placed upon the Lawrence Scientific School. Under the impetus given by this important improvement the school was fast becoming a large and flourishing institution. That year three men presented themselves for admission; and about two thirds of the applicants were successful. The Faculty were pleased beyond measure. This was the largest class known for years. But soon a difficulty arose. A close examination of the books of the successful candidates showed that either A had copied from B, or B from A. This was a serious dilemma; but the Faculty were equal...
...error of his ways, and checked his infernal propensity. One unlucky afternoon he was hard at work in the laboratory, where suddenly, alas! an explosion, a sound of breaking glass - the Freshman class, O where was it? Ask of the fulminating silver that far around with fragments strews the new Gymnasium. Examinations were postponed...