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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...perpetuate the secondary fall rowing, whether it consists of inter-dormitory bumping races or some other form of rowing competition. The success of the bumping races this fall, however, was so pronounced that the rowing authorities will strive to encourage the fall rowing along these lines rather than in various other ways which have been used in former years. One of the cups is a perpetual challenge cup, to be competed for each year; the other will become the permanent property of Claverly...
...five pieces in verse are as various in form as in subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny...
...been a long-felt need for a better approach to Soldiers Field from the Cambridge side than the present structure affords, but as the river is still a navigable waterway owing to the few barges and lighters which ply between the one or two remaining wharves at Brighton and various coalyards in the Boston harbor, a stationary bridge over the channel at Boylston bridge would have to have a head room of 25 feet at high tide to fulfil the government requirements. The authorities are in hopes of soon being able to gain control of the wharves at Brighton, thus...
...Buehler, head-master of Hotchkiss School, delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The Battle of Gettysburg" before a large audience. The stereopticon views illustrating the lecture consisted of charts showing the positions of the divisions of each army before the battle and during its various stages; pictures of the battlefield as it appears at the present day and of the monuments erected to the soldiers; and many contemporary paintings, photographs and wood-cuts portraying the struggle...
...history of the departments in the order of their establishment, an account of the Warren Anatomical Museum, a description of the new buildings, and other incidentals, such as a list of the faculty and instructors for the present year. The book is illustrated with heliotype reproductions of the various buildings occupied by the School, and with portraits of people associated with...