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...following men are now trying for the University Nine: Alger, '79; Annan, L. S.; Bacon, '80; Brown, '79; Brown, '82; Black, '79; Cook, '79; Coolidge, '81; Cohen, L. S.; Dalzell, '79; Elliott, '81; Fisher, '81; Folsom, '81; Harding, '78; Howe, M. S.; Huse, M. S.; Nunn, '79; Parker, '81; Perrin, '82; Spaulding, '81; Winsor...
...Beta Kappa have elected as additional members from '79, Messrs. Brooks, Evans, Thorp, J. T. Coolidge, 3d, Clapp, Delano, Black, Hudson, Burlingham, Felton, Hoadly...
Just opposite Boylston Hall there is a pendent sign that informs the star-gazing pedestrian that this is the Harvard Tea-Store; on Brighton Street a year or two ago a black painted board with gilt letters indicated the position of the Harvard Restaurant, and in numerous cigar-stores in the neighboring metropolis conspicuous placards offer to the smoking public the Harvard Cigarette. One of these institutions, the restaurant, deserved the name it bore, but the others have as little claim to the title as those uninteresting concerts that have been given in Boston in past winters under the name...
...nothing. Wetherbee made good runs for Harvard, passing every one till he reached Withington, who stopped him each time, while for Princeton McNair made the best rush of the game, which he followed up by a drop-kick that nearly went over the goal. Things were now looking very black for Harvard, but Swift got the ball and made a run; after this the ball was kept near the middle of the field, till finally Holmes made a fine run, by which he nearly gained a touch-down; this was Harvard's best rush. Soon after time was called...
...They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...