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...rumor is abroad that Hines, the professional catcher, will attempt to catch a ball dropped from the top of the Washington monument...
...class of '85, Columbia, are making an attempt to memorialize themselves by placing a stained-glass window in their college library...
...another proof of the tenacity with which the members of ancient corporations cling to existing institutions even in the face of reason. Public opinion in Germany is undoubtedly moving against this academic verdict. A book has just been published which shows that the opposition to such an artificial attempt to restrict the popular tendency is no longer confined to the interested party itself, but is shared even by a man whose well known impartiality and established position give to his views an unusual weight...
...first attempt at daily journalism was made simultaneously at Harvard and Yale. The "Echo," started in 1879, was the first Harvard daily. Then in 1882, came the "Herald," and in the struggle for the "survival of the fittest," the "Echo died. In 1883 the "Herald" was consolidated with the "Crimson," and was known as the "Herald-Crimson" until the spring of 1884, when it became "THE DAILY CRIMSON...
There is noticeably a marked increase in the interest which the men take in their exercise since the appearance of Mr. Lathrop in the gymnasium. The monotony of mere routine work has been much relieved by his attempt, by squared exercise, to arouse enthusiasm in vaulting, tumbling, shot-passing and other diversions. A great many go into the gymnasium, and development book in hand, proceed to follow minutely Dr. Sargent's directions, they do nothing with any life or vigor, and their Faces are as gloomy and full of despair as if they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus...