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...Thames course with equal conditions to each. Any one who has rowed on the river cannot fail to have noticed how much the tide and wind may be of advantage or disadvantage, - as Yale found out to her cost. And though this may hardly seem possible when the width of the river is taken into consideration, it certainly is the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1886 | See Source »

...training, and changes in the distance rowed. The Oneida, which was the name of the Harvard boat used in '52, is described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches long in the waist, to twelve feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Races. | 6/18/1886 | See Source »

...practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming and Cribbing at Yale. | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

Several men have been lately wearing, we presume through ignorance, in the gymnasium, the cap which has been adopted by the University organizations for the ensuing year. The cap consists of black and red stripes, of about an inch in width, and is a visorshaped hat. In fact, the same as the one used until now by the cricket club. We believe that Brine is ready to redeem the hats of these men, and if not yet, they will hardly wear them as they are distinctly the badge of a present member of some one of the regularly organized university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/5/1885 | See Source »

...amount to. Let us take, for instance, the blocks on Fifth avenue, New York. They number twenty to the mile. Taking these blocks, then, as a standard, we find that the length of the "quadrangle" from Holworthy to Grays is two and a half blocks, and that its average width is only a little less than one block. A walk around this enclosure is considerably over a quarter of a mile. The width of the whole yard, from Wads worth House to the gate leading to the gymnasium, is three and a half blocks. The whole length is about four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE DISTANCES. | 3/14/1884 | See Source »

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