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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clarke, '84, takes an occasional row with the crew, but will not begin regular training until the first of May. The crew, though giving great promise of success, has not yet reached perfection. The men are not rowing with enough uniformity. Those on the starboard side often fail to draw their oars clear through, and in the middle of the boat there is a break in the time, occasioned by number five, who does not heave back his shoulders with the others. A few more individual "peculiarities" are noticeable. No. 2 shoots his hands out slowly. No. 3 dips...
...Fiske, C. P. Curtis, T. C. Bachelder and J. H. B. Easton (anchor). The freshmen won the toss and took the south end. The drop was almost even, the Lawmen having a little the advantage. Easton soon made the line come over. The Law Schoolmen took it easy and often eased up, while Easton held the rope. At the end, the ribbon was five inches to their credit...
...next section contains some admonitions to the readers themselves. It says :-Inasmuch as the task imposed upon the students often proves too difficult to be mastered unless the pen is called upon to aid the memory, it is enacted, that the lecturers shall make as little haste as possible in their reading; -that they shall so enunciate each word that the hearers may easily take them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall...
CLUB SWINGING.D. R. Hansen, '85, and G. A. Webster, C. S. Hansen came in first with a pair of large inlaid clubs. These he swung in a number of very difficult and graceful movements. Often the audience applauded as some new or pleasing feature was introduced. It was an exhibition much superior to any last year. Webster by contrast used a very small pair of clubs. With these he gave a very creditable performance. Mr. Hansen was awarded...
...formerly the custom for the instructors in themes and forensics to reserve books in the English Alcove, which treated in a more or less direct manner the subjects given out to the students in these courses. Within a year or two, this practice which was often very advantageous to the students has been entirely given up, and the students are at present obliged to seek for any information upon the subjects of their themes or forensics which they find. Often the library contains a book which affords special facilities for obtaining a good idea of the subject. If this were...