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...Saturday evening Mr. Henry L. Higginson and Mr. Wm. R. Thayer attended by invitation a meeting of the New York Harvard Club, and explained to its members the project for a University Club at Harvard. The meeting was very numerously attended, and it voted unanimously to adopt resolutions presented by Mr. Henry S. Van Duzer heartily to support the project and to appoint a committee of seven members of the New York Harvard Club to cooperate with the General Committee...
...Williams faculty has voted to adopt the honor system of regulating examinations which was recently proposed by the students. Williams will be the first New England college to adopt the system...
...them in order that they may learn to trade fairly and to the best advantage of all concerned.- (d) The hunt for new fields for investment and for colonization carries with it Christianity and civilization which the surrounding natives will eventually, of their own accord, and consequently more effectively, adopt...
Charles B. Elliot, the first shell-builder to adopt the sliding seat, died recently in New York of heart disease. He built shells for Harvard and Yale and accopanied the '69 Harvard crew to England...
...Easton and Wilson. The most uncertain position is behind the bat, where it will be hard to replace Trenchard and Williams. Kelly is the most promising man for first base and Captain Bradley will play second. Gunster and Ward will probaply play third base and shortstop, The management will adopt the plan followed last year of playing Altman, Easton and Wilson in the outfield when they are not pitching. All are excellent fielders and as batters they will materially strengthen the team. The fact that ten games are to be played with Harvard and Yale has increased the interest...