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About Yale Alumni Magazine | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1900)
\f i « V2 Sy a\\\ ths You, 1%. No, 38, | NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900. Copyright, 1900, by Yale Alumni Weekly. Price 10 Cents. NEW BOOK AND SNAKE HALL. Being Erected on Corner Grove and High Streets. TALE-HARVARD RACES Time and Direction Rowed — Best Trains for New London. The annual Yale-Harvard boat races will be rowed at New London, on the Thames, Thursday, June 28, in the fol- lowing order, as decided at a confer- ence of the Yale and Harvard rowing authorities, Saturday, June 16: Univer- sity Fours will start at the beginning of the 4-mile course at 11.30 A. M., and row with the tide to the Navy Yard, two miles. The Freshman Eights will be ready at the Navy Yard, and with no delay, will race from that point to the drawbridge. As soon as the observa- ion trains can» get back to the start the University Crews will row, probably between 12 and 12.30. This is exactly the Program of last year, except that the hour is an ‘earlier one. Should rowing be impossible in the morning, the races will be rowed up stream in the same order, the fours starting from the drawbridge at 6 P. M. on the incoming tide; the Freshmen finishing the course and the University following as soon as possible, probably by 7 o’clock. Two observation trains will follow the crews, the Central Vermont on the West side and the N. Y., N. H. & H. on the East side. No boats will follow the crews but the Harvard and Yale launches and the two official boats. Mr. Meikleham of Columbia will be the official starter. TRAINS AND BOATS FOR THE. RACES, A special train will leave New Haven at 9 A. M., Thursday, June 28, due in New London at 10.25 A. M., and a second train will leave New Haven at 10.05 A. M., due in New London at 11.30 A. M., both returning after the race is over. The rate in coaches on the specials will be $1.75 for the round trip. Parlor cars will be operated on train leaving - New Haven at 10.05 A. M. Tickets, covering round trip passage and parlor car service, will be sold at rate of $3.50, | at Station Ticket Office. Parlor cars will be operated from New York, leaving at 8 a: m._ Tickets, including round trip passage and parlor car accommodations, $7.00. Steamer Richard Peck will leave New Haven at 8 a. M., taking position at anchorage North of Thames River Bridge. Rate from New Haven, $1.75. Steamer City of Lowell will leave wharf opposite New London Station for anchorage, abort half an hour before starting of University race, tickets 50 cents. The application for seats on the Ob- servation train closed last week and all the unused tickets in the possession of the Yale management are returned this ~week. The applications from graduates have been rather light. The facilities for the race are better than ever before. The new train on the Central Vermont Railroad is very columns. comfortable and safe. The seats on this train, which are comfortably cushioned, have already been well taken wp. The train on the new road on the east side also continues popular. > > ee | New Hall of the Book and : Snake Socicty. The accompanying illustration is from a preliminary architect’s sketch and represents the new hall of the Book and. Snake Society, substantially as_ it will look when completed. The only material change is in the front steps, — which will extend across the portico to the blocks. in front of the two outer The building is now in pro- cess of construction and. will be com- pleted in September. Its dimensions:are forty feet by seventy, and the material is white Vermont marble. It is lo- cated on the corner of Grove and High Streets, next to the new Memorial Hall and facing on Grove Street. The archi- tect is R. H. Robertson of New York City. |
