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After one experience with a world-beating Harvard team that was almost universally expected to swamp a supposedly weak Yale team in 1910, I want to offer just a word to the undergraduates, with the exception of the Seniors: to them, I am sure, 1910 taught a valuable lesson...
...building on Boylston street near the Stadium bridge will probably be ready for use in time for the Brown football game, three weeks hence. The station has been erected expressly for the convenience of the people who attend football games; and in spite of the huge crowds which swamp Cambridge on the days of such contests, it is expected that it will be able to handle them with perfect facility. The platform has been constructed for trains of four cars, which can be run at two minute intervals when necessary. There are booths for twenty-two ticket sellers...
...Freshman Dormitory Scheme" is a timely and serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school...
...race was started shortly after 2 O'clock, under the most adverse weather conditions. After a wait of some minutes in a cold drizzle of rain, the crews were obliged to contend against a head-wind, amid seas which threatened to swamp them at any moment. The oars-manship exhibited under these circumstances was creditable to both crews...
...examine well-known myocene deposits on the York River and to secure for the Department of Geology a collection of the marine fossils peculiar to this section. The party will go by train to Baltimore and thence by boat to York-town, returning by way of the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, the Richmond Coal Basin and Washington...