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...this represents the last great event of the Season. She will have been to the Private View of the Royal Academy, to Ascot, to at least one of the Courts, and her flowered garden party frocks (indispensable to London ladies in the Season) will have been put through a strenuous series of functions. She will be glad when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone...
...Conn., June 2--The second full day of practice for the Harvard crews today was much more strenuous, with all four eights getting stiff workouts. The weather was clear and warmer and Coaches Whiteside and Haines wasted no time in getting their men down to the real work...
With two crews journeying to Philadelphia for the regatta on Saturday, the University oarsmen have been having a week of easy workouts. This afternoon, with the possibility of a four-mile row in preparation for the coming strenuous days at Red Top, the first heavyweight crew will call a halt in its spring practice until next Sunday, when the squad is to leave for the southern training camp...
With three days of strenuous practice behind them the first two boats of the University navy will embark for Ithaca today, leaving by the 4.30 o'clock train from the South Station. On Saturday they will engage in a quadruple regatta, meeting Cornell, Syracuse, and Technology, the latter for the second race of the season...
...victories out of nine starts, the University baseball forces will attempt to get back into the winning column this afternoon at 4 o'clock, when they act as hosts to the strong Colby aggregation, at Soldiers Field. Coach Mitchell of Harvard, in anticipation of what promises to be a strenuous game for his charges yesterday made a few changes in the lineup...