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...days past the Trophy Room has been closed, on account of an attempt to steal the shield won last spring at the dual games with Pennsylvania. It has been opened to visitors again, but all portable objects of value have been removed...
...prizes the crew wins for the club a magnificent shield with the names of the men engraved on it, while each man is given a silver cup besides his oar. The coxswain also gets a cup as well as his rudder...
...followed by the second division, made up of Harvard men. The Harvard division was headed by the College band of nearly thirty pieces, under the efficient leadership of A. H. Howard '98, who wore a crimson sweater, on the front of which was a large black and white woven shield with the motto "Veritas." The rest of the band were dressed in blue sack coats, white duck trousers and straw hats. The drum corps of fifteen men followed in similar costume. The classes marched in order, dressed in duck trousers and straw hats with their class ribbons. Ninety...
...silver shield offered by the B. A. A. to the school winning the most out of nine meetings has been won twice by Hopkinson, twice by Worcester High School, once by Roxbury Latin School, and the remaining time Hopkinsons and Roxbury Latin tied...
Whatever the cause is that produced the effect, it certainly worked through a thickness of wood which at one place was not less than one-half an inch. At other places the thickness of the wooden shield was only about one-eighth of an inch, but it is very difficult to distinguish on the plate the part that was covered by the extra thickness. It is evident that an effect would have been produced through more than one inch of solid wood...