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...point in which the meeting could have been improved was in the matter of heating the gymnasium, for the temperature of the building was so low that the many ladies present must have experienced positive discomfort. In the matter of prizes the record of Saturday stood: '85, two; '86, tow; '87, one; '88, one; Law School, one. The fence vault was won by Mr. Cary, '86, but this will be counted to the credit of '85, inasmuch as the handicap is disregarded in events which count for the class pennant. The record of the classes in regard to events...
...towards the deeper water. One of the gentlemen and two of the ladies were at once washed into shoal water in an exhausted condition, while the other young ladies finding themselves in great danger called for help. Mr. Thayer and his companion rushed to their assistance but the under-tow was too much for them and all four were swept under, being drowned, of course instantly...
...disabled steamship City of Chester, concerning the safety of which anxiety has been felt for several days, arrived safely at Halifax yesterday afternoon in tow of the Missouri...
...Inman steamer City of Chester, from Liverpool for New York, was at sea in a gale on Wednesday with a broken shaft. The steamship Suevia took her in tow for a time, but left her for lack of sufficient coal. She is anxiously looked for at Halifax...
...alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare...