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This afternoon at half-past twelve o'clock the annual class races will take place, provided that no postponement is necessary on account of the weather. The course is straight away from the Brookline bridge to the Union boat-house, a distance of one and seveneighths miles. The races are always rowed with the tide; but as east winds are very common, very few races have been rowed on this course in less than eleven minutes. Last year the '83 crew won easily in 11.30 and the year before last '82 won in 12.43. The best record is 9.4, made...
Agassiz has rowed in the class races for the past two years; Wesselhoeft has been with this class crew in all its races except the one with the Columbia freshmen, when he was unable to row. His place was taken by Bliss, who has since been in all the class races. Kemp and Penrose are new men, but have both had considerable experience in single sculling. Hutchinson has rowed in four races, Bryant in three, but not in last year's class race...
...that is mortal of the old HARVARD DAILY HERALD has had to undergo one more change before its name could be finally buried in the grave of the past, and in consequence of this change we come before our readers this morning as the DAILY CRIMSON. Several reasons have led us to make this alteration ; the fact that the CRIMSON is an older name, and on that account one more firmly connected with the college and its institutions, than the somewhat complex title we have been bearing ; the fact that crimson is the college color, and the agreement, based...
...confess it is with a certain feeling of regret that we consign the name, Herald, to the past, although we hope, not to oblivion. The present board has been so strongly identified with every matation in the fortunes of the Herald, with all its ups down, that, if well-known 'indifference' did not prevent us, we should almost feel tempted to drop atear on its sepulchre. And out of the varying fortunes of the Herald the DAILY CRIMSON comes; Let us hope that in its new guise; the paper may continue the prosperous career it has hitherto...
...class, Mr. Coolidge, said that he wished to speak of the kind expressions of members of the faculty on Mr. Lovering's death. Prof. Shaler in particular, saying that he considered him one of the most promising young men whom he had met with in the college for the past twenty-four years, the time of his instruction here...