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...Richard H. Dana discusses the recent boat race from the point of view of an old oarsman who has constantly kept up his interest in the sport. Horace Parker Chandler '64 gives some very interesting reminiscences of his college days. The editor has an article on the subject of raising the tuition fee, now much discussed in academic circles. As Mr. Thayer is an Overseer as well as an editor, his article is probably a trial balloon to see how the graduates will take the subject...
...club house tomorrow evening. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside. The speakers will be; the Hon. William C. Loring '72, justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, who rowed on the Harvard crew in his undergraduate days; P. D. Trafford '89, of New York, who was a famous oarsman and football player, and will be the chief marshal at Commencement in June; C. B. Wood '98, of Philadelphia, who rowed in the winning crew of 1899; Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, who rowed while he was in College and for many years since then has been the medical adviser...
Captain Reynolds on behalf of the University crew has accepted Mr. Noyes' invitation to be present at the reading. Mr. Noyes was an oarsman in his University days, and has extended the present invitation in memory of this fact...
...with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise himself unnoticed and unlibelled by nature's young noblemen who frequent the river-front. But seriously, here is a chance for the landscape architect to plant something but formal gardens. The dormitories, the boat houses, the Stadium, and the new bridge are worth a setting...
During his two months' stay in this country, Mr. Noyes, has visited almost all the prominent educational centres, and has given a series of readings at Yale and other colleges. While at Oxford, he was an oarsman and still evinces an active interest in athletics and other features of undergraduate life. Mr. Noyes is a thorough and interested student of American literature, in particular the writings of some of our younger poets and novelists...