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...held at Rome in April, 1922; entries close March 31, and should be accompanied by a fee of two lire for individual contests and five lire for collective contests. Competition is invited from American Colleges and Universities for the International football match (one team for each nation), rowing (skiff and four-oar), foot races (100 metres, 800 metres, 5000 metres), relay race of 1600 metres. One team of three competitors will be admitted to each event from each nation...
...politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with the sense of the blind inevitability of the facts...
...SALE. - 18-foot St. Lawrence river skiff, in first-class condition. For particulars address 37 Beck Hall...
...recent investigation at the boat house reveals the fact that the appliances for life saving there are totally inadequate, At present they seem to consist principally of one very cranky skiff. While, in the past few years, there has been no serious accident at the boat house, the possibility of such an accident is always present. The sad occurence of last week, though it did not take place near the boat house, showed how liable we are to accidents on the river. We hope that this word to the university boat club will be enough. Their attention has probably...
...become so fashionable at Yale for single scullers and other venturesome oarsmen to upset in the harbor, that a light skiff is kept in readiness at the boat house to rescue all those who think enthusiasm the only thing needed to make a man an accomplished oarsman...