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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gradual development of the present bicycle from the old velocipede. Two chapters are devoted to a full description of the manufacture and mechanics of the machine, and another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club, and an excellent index ends the book. We have...
...Institute Supper will take place on Thursday. May 22, at 7.30 P. M., at Young's Hotel. Tickets can be obtained at 13 Holyoke from 11 to 12, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The officers are: S. Hammond, President; W. R. Thayer, Toastmaster; C. M. Van Buren, Orator; P. Evarts, Poet; J. S. How, Chorister; and Messrs. Sanger, Upham, and Browne, Committee...
...three o'clock, - not the enticing hour when the men of crimson stockings wend their way to Jarvis Field, and the Juniors who have lost their privilege of voluntary recitations sorrowfully take notes at lectures, - it was the deadest hour of night. I folded my completed forensic, and went down for a few minute; of fresh air before going...
...well, I take the clew; it may entice...
...Spring Races will take place on Saturday, May 17, at 10 A. M., over the Charles River course. The race for Senior Scullers will come first; prize, a solid silver cup. The Junior Scullers will come next; prize, a silver-plated cup. No one can row in this race who has ever rowed before in a race open to all, whether under college auspices or not. The distance will be one mile straight-away, instead of one mile and a half with turn, as previously announced. The third race will be for class eight-oared shells, open to all classes...