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Stoughton 11.LOST. - A steel rod umbrella. Please return to Leavitt & Peirce...
...games Saturday afternoon did unusually well, first and second prizes in every event except the pole vault being won by H. A. A. men. As a whole, the meeting was very successful. Two Technology records were broken,- the running high jump by C. D. Heywood, who cleared the rod at the height of 5 feet 10 1-2 inches, (best previous Technology record, 5 feet 6 inches), and the pole vault by J. Crane, Jr., -9 feet 9 5-8 inches...
...last few days the crew have been rowing with the seats all connected by a wooden rod. This is only a temporary scheme to teach the new men the proper idea of the recover. This was also tried for a short time on the '84 crew before they went on the water and it was given up as useless. The sophomore crew in 1883 rowed in the class races with a similar arrangement, but found it very unsatisfactory-they came in third. The plan is only intended to be temporary of course but it is rather interesting to watch...
...Teacups" Dr. Holmes is not at his best, but introduces the slight sketch of a most effective maniac story. "Cart Horses" by H. C. Merwin is full of information. William Morris' "House of the Wolfings" is reviewed, and poems are contributed by Mrs. Fields and Mary C. Gates. "Rod's Salvation" is concluded, and "Sidney" keeps on its way. The Contributor's Club is evidently on the verge of nervous prostration...
...Racing in Great Britain," by Professor F. C. Sumichrast; "Lawn Tennis-on the present method of scoring," by Howard A. Taylor; "The English Race courses," by "Borderer;" "A Lesson in Brook Trouting," by Dr. G. M. Hyde; "The game of Lawnbowls," by James Hedley; "A new hand at the rod," by C. R. C.; "Bass Fishing on Rideau Lake," by J. W. Longley. But the article chiefly interesting to Harvard men is one by F. A. Stevenson, captain of the Yale crew in 1888, on "Yale and her Victories on the Water." The writer says much in favor...