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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daniel Pratt was seen haranguing a group of strikers in Central square yesterday. He divided their attention between the spherical formation of the primordeal globule and a denunciation of Sam Jones. The strikers were much enlightened...
...correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried...
...Springfield in 1855. The following year, after the "Oneida" had done Harvard good service both as a pleasure and a racing boat, the old eight-oared barge was sold to Dartmouth where she was shortly after washed over a dam and lost. A picture of her may be still seen in the Trophy room...
...been accepted by the Spirit of the Times as correct, it is generally looked upon with suspicious eyes. The perfection of rules of measuring, starting and timing, make the present records all over the world uniform, and establish them as final when they are made. However, it can be seen that the present records are pushed down so close that only in bicycling, where new ones are merely set up to be knocked down again, is there a probability of an important change in the immediate future.Even the fastest runner can hardly hope to beat 10 seconds...
...every man who was not a non-society man, or who was even ordinarily busy. Our argument, which occurs to every one, is of course that at the outset the club threatens to be too large for success. The success in the limitation of membership of any club is seen in the conduct of every well-known society which commands a "waiting list." But it is just such limitation which would kill the university club at the outset. What then is left? On each side an almost utter impossiblity of success. This plan is not new, for it has been...