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Owing to the great public excitement of the last two months the attention of Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, has been somewhat distracted from University athletics, with the possible result that baseball and rowing men feel that they are not receiving the support of former years. If such be the case these athletes must remember that a year ago there was nothing to prevent the Yale game and the race from being the prevailing topics of the hour. Harvard men have the interests of their crew just as much at heart as a year ago, and the rowing season...
...over the four mile course on the Thames. Like the race of last year the outcome of today's contest is pretty generally conceded to one crew. In the opinion of most rowing experts Cornell will have no difficulty in securing the victory today. The futility of prophesying the result of a boat race has been many times proven and any certitude with regard to the race this afternoon is impossible. Other things being equal, however, Cornell should win today. There are seven men in the boat who are veterans and for coxswain they have a wonderfully capable coach...
...particularly encouraging. Not only were the Harvard players superior in the field but for once they far and away excelled at the bat, and showed no discouraging signs of weakness to mar their sucess. By his steadiness Hayes showed himself capable of consistently good work, and altogether the result augurs well...
...versions. Hitherto only discouragement has met those who have desired a passing acquaintance with the human aspect of Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead of supplementing their courses in modern literature, English or foreign, with a course in that literature which may almost be called its starting point, they have gone on continually reminded of their ignorance and as continually turned back by the difficulties...
...sent by Professor W. L. Jepson of the University of California and Mr. J. W. Congdon of Mariposa, California. An extremely interesting collection, including many critical specimens, has been contributed by Professor Marcus S. Jones of Salt Lake City. The entire collection now contains over 27,-000 specimens, the result of over sixty years of continuous growth...