Word: spring
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...case the subject will be announced by the French department. The winners of these debates will compete for the class championship on May 4. The subject for this debate will be presented on April 5 and the men will be chosen by April 12, a few days before the spring vacation. All these arrangements are based on the supposition that the Yale debate will come at the usual time, the first week in March. Unless this date can be changed the Yale debate trials will have to come before the mid-year examinations. It is probable, however, that Yale will...
Cornell expects to have track meets this spring with Columbia, Syracuse, Princeton and Williams and two western universities...
Rowing is the oldest branch of systematic athletics at Harvard, although a course of gymnastic training was introduced by Dr. Charles Follen as early as 1830. The competitive system did not spring up at once, and rowing, when it began in 1844, was more of the nature of a pastime. The "Oneida," which was the first boat used at Harvard, was typical of the other boats soon afterwards bought by the different clubs. It was 37 feet long of lap-streak construction, heavy and low in the water, and the thole pins were sunk in the gunwale. There...
...launch will be ready for use by March 10 unless weather prevents the trial run. Much aid in drawing the plans was derived from a thesis written last spring by two Scientific School students. This thesis contains a complete and scientific account of the machinery and rates of speed of the "Frank Thompson" and offers valuable hints for the building of the new boat. A Herreschoff launch with a speed of twenty knots has been hired for the use of the crews until the new boat is finished...
...meeting of the captains and managers of the Harvard and Yale University crews held in Cambridge on January 6, the details for the races at New London next spring were decided upon. The following is the programme of the University, four-oared and Freshman crew races. All the races will be rowed down stream with the tide. The University race will be rowed on June 28 at 11.30 o'clock...