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...recent meeting of the Harvard Club of New York resolutions were drawn up condemning the action of the athletic committee in refusing to permit the eleven to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving...
...seems to me that it is as important to prevent fire as it is to provide fireescapes that are more dangerous than fire itself, and I hope therefore that the college authorities will take some such action as I have mentioned towards protecting the buildings...
...literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning or end. The longer poems were composed in forms regulated by strict rules...
...played in Cambridge is very extraordinary to say the least. The Gill-Beecher letter, on which Harvard founds her claim, was merely the private opinion of two members of the university, and was never intended as an agreement binding the college: but even if it was, the later action of the two colleges, agreeing unconditionally to play in New York, would have annulled it. If Harvard persists in her demand there will be no game and the responsibility for the result rest solely on her shoulders...
...Breed of Horses," by Prof. W. H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School. This paper was particularly interesting and received much applause. The last paper of Tuesday's session was one by Prof. Gibbs of Yale, and Mr. H. E. Hare; the subject was "A Systematic Study of the Action of Definitely Related Chemical Compounds upon Animals." Mr. Gibbs read this. After the reading of this paper a short discussion was held upon the subject by members of the Academy...