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...while apparently it would inconvenience none. The hour of all the club tables is six, and undoubtedly many prefer clubs to Memorial Hall largely on this account. It may be urged that those who like can come at six, but the dinner which the late-comer gets is not one which tempts a repetition of the tardiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...minutes being equalled. This was the exact time made. An equally handsome cup was offered for the mile-run conditional on 4 m. 55 sec. being made. This time was not made, and the mile cup was provided by the H. A. A. The cup is a very pretty one, but unfortunately it is thrown in the shade by some of the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre will this year be well filled, especially if the contest can be in the evening, when the examinations and other diversions of the day are ended, and men are at leisure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...matter of history, and the usual amount of fault-finding is going on over its body. As a test regatta it was undoubtedly rather a failure, although the crew that had been the favorite before the race won in each race; the failure consisting in the fact that not one of the crews which competed is now qualified to row as an amateur in England; indeed, Lee, the single-scull winner, has been under suspicion for some time in this country. The "Sewing-Machines," as they are called, proved themselves miracles of gameness, endurance, and speed as their record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

Long Pull. - On May 18 a six-oared barge of the Undine Boat Club of Sacramento, Cal., rowed from that city to Vallejo, a distance of one hundred miles, in 22 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

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