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Arrangements are now being made at Amherst for a mock national convention to be held February 20th. Three hundred or more men are to be present as delegates from the different States, and the affair will be carried on as much like the national conventions as possible. College Hall will be decorated in a fitting manner, and the occasion will doubtless be one of great enthusiasm. The doorkeepers, pages, telegraph operators and presiding officers are to be chosen from the college at large. The names of four candidates-Blaine, Sherman, Hawley and Lincoln-will be brought before the convention...
...communication from Wellesley which we reprinted from University. Nevertheless it is gratifying to us all, and especially to the Pierian Sodality, to learn that the omissions of that memorable evening were not commissions, that it was rather ill-management than ill will that led to the discomforts of the affair. The subtle and delicate sympathy for the members of the Pierian which evidently inspired the men to make the aspersions on the management of the Tennis Association, cannot fail to have a softening influence on the cold and biting memories of that night...
...result of the election by the juniors of the new members and ordered a new election. This was held and the same men elected. These the old board refused again, and then arbitrarily they appointed the men they wished themselves. There is much excitement and ill-feeling over the affair...
Circulars have been received by the CRIMSON announcing a winter tennis tournament at St. Augustine, Florida. Many men in college will doubtless be interested in the plan. Several noted tennis players are prime movers in the affair, and among them Mr. R. D. Sears, formerly of Harvard. "A season of exceptional brilliancy is assured this winter at St. Augustine by the opening of the new palatial hotels. Among the events of interest proposed is a series of out-door tennis tournaments for both ladies and gentlemen, in singles, doubles and pairs, to be held about the middle of March...
Although complaints have been frequent, no one has heretofore proposed any practicable plan to reform the present state of affairs at Memorial. Recently a gentlemen, unconnected with the college, made a thorough examination of the subject, and presents a number of excellent suggestions. The principal fault to be found with Memorial fare is the poor cooking of the food, due to the insufficient number of cooks, the overtaxing of their patience by the order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from...