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...second place, the drainage and purification system is present in name more than in fact. The troughs at the side that are made to drain off the sur- face water as it splashes up into them are broken in one place, so that the water that flows into them at that end of the tank flows back into the pool again, bringing with it the phlegm that has been spit into the trough by the swimmers. On one occasion I noticed that all the troughs were filled to overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were...
...upperclass crews have all had changes in their wonders during the last three days, but in spite of this fact they have all materially, improved, and seem to be evenly matched. The Senior and Sophomore crews have been developed under Coach Brown. Although the Senior eight has had some trough the Senior eight has had some trouble in maintaining a high stroke, the boat is manned with heavy and powerful men, and the crew is fit for a hard race. The Sophomore crew is the lightest of the upperclass crews, and does not seem to be quite as good...
...rowing tanks in the Gymnasium is that the water cannot be made to circulate rapidly enough to imitate the motion of a shell. A plan which will probably be adopted is an endless chain of paddles to quicken the circulation of the water, to revolve in the inner trough on each side of the boat by steam power. If this plan proves practicable it will greatly lessen the drudgery of practice...
...should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
...work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests in the epilogue, that when he was questioned by "Prexy" Walker next morning...