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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are about eight different kinds of tortoises native to New England, and besides these several species are sometimes brought from the south by the gulf stream. These attain the length of eight feet, and weigh 1000 pounds. The snapping turtle is well known in this neighborhood where they are quite common. Except when foraging for food, they remain under water, only coming to the surface about once in an hour to breathe. They are very persistent in attacking their prey, and when they have seized a fish, they will often allow themselves to be carried about for hours. They...
...race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...
...football men, there are now some 25 candidates. The first crew has been using the slide for two weeks. The method of the stroke seems to be a long swing of the body accompanied with a most excellent drive with the legs. The candidates are all muscular and few weigh under one hundred and sixty pounds...
...Irving concluded: "I ask you to weigh well the advantages which may present themselves to you before you try to part with, to minimize, or to forego in any way your own individuality. Study it without being egotistic, and understanding the weak places, shun their temptations and try to protect yourself by added strength. Knowing yourself, you may learn to know others; and so in process of time you will both consciously and unconsciously learn those abiding principles of human nature and of human character which add to the knowledge and the progress of the world...
Three new shells have been ordered for the use of the 'varsity crew. Davy is to build a cedar boat. It will be constructed on a lighter and slightly narrower model than his former boats and will probably weigh, when completed, in the neighborhood of 200 pounds. Waters is at work on a paper shell which will be very much the same sort of a boat as that used by the '92 'varsity crew. The third shell is being built in Enland by Ruff, the builder who supplies the Oxford crews. This boat will be brought over here as soon...