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Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 15, 1914. -- In the morning weather conditions were not promising. The sky was overcast, the wind blowing from the southwest, and altogether prospects were discouraging. Shortly before rowing time, however, the sun broke through the clouds and the wind moderated. The morning row consisted of a three-mile paddle, Wray coaching from the launch. In the afternoon he took Captain Brown's place in the Freshman eight for a few moments to make the men get a harder catch. The Henley or second crew rowed two miles at a high stroke. The University...
...Weather Bureau has announced the following for the weather at New Haven today: Continuing light rain during the morning, partially clearing about noon; overcast and possibly fair in afternoon...
...Wednesday afternoon at New Haven, the Yale freshmen won the second and last game of the series with the Harvard freshmen. The sky was overcast and there was no wind, but the number of spectators was very small. The game was interesting up to the eighth inning, when Harvard went to pieces...
...horizon of college politics is again overcast, and angry mutterings of discontent are heard. Cornell has been afflicted with a student election, in which there was much bitterness and ill-feeling shown, and in which, if we may judge from the account of the matter in the Sun, some performances similar to the recent unfortunate election frauds at Yale took place. The occasion has called forth some very bitter reflections from our esteemed contemporary. It cries: "The student opinion that can countenance the disgraceful and unmanly words and actions that have come to be characteristic of a college election...
...evenings appointed for the Senior class to visit the Observatory have failed, we fear, to give entire satisfaction to those chiefly interested. The sky, with a shameful disregard of all right feeling in the matter, has remained persistently overcast for most of the time appointed. It certainly seems that the authorities are well borne out by the elements in their determination to keep us away from the Observatory. We know that we are asking a great deal, but if there come a nice clear evening next week, would it not be allowable for a few men from seventy-eight...