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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...basin. The start will be made opposite the Union boathouse at 3.30 o'clock, and the boats will finish at the Longwood bridge. The members of the winning crew will be awarded their club insignia, which will consist of a large "N" or "W" with "U. B. C." in small letters. Coach Wray and Captain Richardson will follow the crews in the launch, and men who show up well under the strain of racing conditions will be considered for the University squad next spring. Last year, 10 men were taken up to the University squad as the result of similar...
...difficult to make any prophecy on the outcome of the race on account of the difference of the courses over which the two teams have been running. Thirty-five men tried for the University team this fall, the largest squad which has ever come out, but small compared to the Yale squad of 80 men. Nine out of the ten members of the team are very inexperienced, while Yale has several of last year's men on her team. However, Harvard won an easy victory over Technology in fairly good time while Princeton defeated Yale almost as easily in only...
...time-honored custom of throwing pennies for "Scrambling," and satisfying the appeals of numerous diminutive beggars. This custom, however, petty it may be, has many disadvantages and nothing in its favor. looking at it from a selfish point of view, it promotes a wholesale attack upon the small change of members of the University, until it has become Easter, in spite of convictions, to secure peace by yielding...
Owing to the small size of the Freshman football squad and the lateness of the season, the idea of organizing a tournament for scrub teams has been abandoned for this year...
...Altrocchi's "Western Fable" is impressive. "Old Doc. Barber" has a dramatic way of telling his story and his simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction of the "Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent...