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Columbia secured the western position. There was the usual vexatious delay before starting, and when finally the word "go" was given, at about half past five, the press boat, as many a knight of the quill has already piteously told his readers, was half a mile up the river. Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow...
...Committee for the Senior Promenade this year are having more difficulty than usual in obtaining subscriptions. While the lack of support is general, the Freshman and Junior classes are noticeably behindhand...
...Spring Races this afternoon. Owing to a lack of training on the part of most of the men desiring to enter, the single-scull race has been indefinitely postponed; but it will probably take place about June 15. A programme of the races, which will take place as usual over the Union Boat-Club's course, accompanies this number of the Crimson...
...races, and affords the captains of the different crews time to draw the lots properly. Rather contrary to expectation, the entry-book was well filled on Friday evening, there being thirty-four names entered for the six-oars and thirty-two for the four-oars. There was the usual tardiness in getting started, and it was almost twelve o'clock before the first race took place...
...Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably be lost. The plan suggested by our correspondent of having a class-book edited by the Secretary and not by the class...