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...rehearsing regularly and promises to be quite up to its old standard. The necessary stimulus would be supplied if some of the friends of the organization would procure invitations for it to play in neighboring cities. The Glee club has many invitations very winter and undoubtedly the Pierian could get some of the same kind if slight efforts were made by students living in the vicinity of Boston...
...athletics, just so soon intercollegiate contests have ceased to have a purpose. It is to preclude the possibility of this danger that the present action has been taken; and to it we must look for whatever improvement is to come. It is to be regretted that the committee could not have gone even farther, and confined athletics simply to undergraduates, but this obviously could not be done, for it would be impossible to impugns the motives of graduates returning to college. The present rules therefore seem the wisest and best that could have been made under the circumstances...
Princeton defeated Wesleyan in a championship game at the Berkeley oval Sa urday by a score of 94 to nothing. Wesleyan could do nothing whatever with Princeton's heavy rushers, who played a remarkably strong game. Dartmouth defeated Tech at Boston by a score of 42 to 6. At the end of the first half the score was only 12 to 6, but at that time some of Tech's best players were compelled to retire, and Dartmouth had it all her own way the second half. Lehigh beat Columbia at New York...
...register five yards. Three more downs, and Thayer kicked. Chureh tackled Saxe when he tried to run on catching the ball. Blanchard failed to gain and Trafford kicked. Hulme made a fine run diagonally across the field and gained twenty yards. Cumnock broke through and downed Dewey before he could get started with the ball. Thayer kicked and Saxe returned and the ball was at Pennsylvania's fifteen yard line. Hulme and Thayer made no gain but Harvard lost five yards on P. Trafford's off-side play. Harvard secured the ball and Blanchard, Fearing and Saxe advanced it. Harvard...
...famous "War Papers.' the Lincoln History and George Kennan's series n "Siberia and the Exile System") will publish the long looked for Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, whose "Rip Van Winkle" has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they...