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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...days its regatta committee have been examining suitable courses. The choice lies between a course at Newburg and one at Poughkeepsie. At Newburg a four-mile course can be obtained, sheltered from all except the east winds, so that smooth water is practically assured. The current runs at the rate of but three miles an hour and as the stream at that point is over a mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel. At Poughkeepsie the stream does not afford a three mile stretch anywhere north...
...They do not injure the American laborer. 1. Do not permanently compete with native laborers. (a) Form non-competing groups: Cairne's Political Economy, pp. 57-59, 66-67. (b). Aid division of labor; (c). Have not lowered rate of wages in general: Westminister Review p. 482 et seq. (2). Supply of labor is not excessive: Cong...
...University, College and Library accounts there has been a large increase of income, chiefly from more tuition fees, Walter Hastings Hall and the higher rate of income on funds. The expenditure, however, has been greater, causing a deficit of $714.68, which has been charged to Stock account. The income of the Stock account has been added to its capital to make good in part former deficits. The balance of the unrestricted Sever Fund has been used up in improving the ventilation of Sever Hall. For 1889-90 there was a surplus...
...gymnasium authorities to the condition of that part of the gymnasium known as the cage. The only fielding practice that candidates for the freshman nine can get there is in trying to stop seven or eight grounders every afternoon. This practice amounts to very little at any rate and is reduced to almost nothing by the condition of the ground. In five cases out of ten the ball does not bound within three feet of where it is expected. It ought not to require a great amount of work to keep the ground in at least decent condition...
...Foxcroft Club has been enlarged and board can now be obtained at an average cost of forty cents a day, the lowest rate that has been in Cambridge for thirty years. The new scheme at Memorial Hall is spoken of with approval and is evidently considered a success...