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...learn to speak of Yale as a scientific school with a classical department attached. Compare these Yale figures with our own. The figures for 1883-84 at Harvard were 1522, an increase of nearly a hundred, and for 1884-85, 1586, a gain of 64. While Yale has gone backward during the last two years, the loss being ten men, Harvard has advanced rapidly in every department and shown a gain of over one hundred and fifty, the Harvard students to0day being exactly 500 in excess of those of Yale...
...transition state. In some respects, she is already wholly unlike the American colleges, whereas in others she retains her old form. Now we hope our readers will not misunderstand what we are going to say. What we are going to advocate is not a step backward on the part of the students, but a corresponding step forward on the part of the Powers that Be-a recognition of the progress of student public sentiment...
...scattered and some delay ensued. The trail finally led around Fresh Pond toward the north, past the brick yards in North Cambridge, and down the Fitchburg railroad track until the bags were found in a field near the track. The foremost hounds had to wait here until the more backward men came up, according to the rules for a slow hunt, and ten men were there to break for home. after the break, which was two miles from the college grounds, the men became much scattered. Brandt, '85, came in first at twenty minutes past five, fourteen minutes after...
...previous year in the history of Harvard boating has there been so much interest centered in the class races. Every day a large number of students go down to the boat-house to watch the different crews at their work on the river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that...
...about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture Richmond. There were several defects which the lecturer enumerated clearly. During the winter of 1863-64 Lee had remained encamped opposite the army of the Potomac near the Rapidan River...