Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of the third change is to avoid the possibility of having the whole board retire at once, and to insure, by retaining half the old board in office after each election, a continuity of policy and experience which has hitherto been lacking. As the auditor is now to act as secretary of the board, the office of vice-president, which has been identical with the secretaryship, becomes superfluous...
...race next season must be a source of satisfaction to all parties concerned. A failure to arrange such a meeting would have caused general regret. Harvard men look at a triangular race as much preferable to two separate contests, Yale is unwilling to lose the chance of establishing her old boating supremacy, and an assured meeting with both her last year's rivals cannot but be a relief to Cornell...
This course is somewhat more crooked than the old. From the start it runs 1 1-2 miles straight-away at which point it is some 400 feet to the west or right of the old course. It then deflects to the east for 3-4 of a mile and thence is 1 3-4 miles straight-away to the finish, which is just north of the Thames River draw bridge. This course offers a depth of water after the first mile varying from 18 to 50 feet...
...number of the Lampoon which comes out today is on the whole better than the average, and in spite of two very old jokes and an uninteresting article on "Dangers of Arctic Industries," is very good reading. The best thing in the issue is a take-off on "The Voice" showing the effects of prohibition at Harvard and the lack of it at Yale. The illustrations are all very fair and the poems are cleverer than usual. The editorial on the new board of the Lampoon contains bright hits on the other college papers. But it is to be hoped...
...old stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...