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...prospects for a good track team this year are unusually bright, for a great many of last year's prize winners are still in college and the new material is excellent. At present there are over two hundred and thirty men in training. Of these, thirty-seven were on the team last year and took part in either the Harvard-Yale games or the Mott Haven games in New York. More than half the remainder tried for the team last year and thus have had experience which hard training may develop into good material...
...have no right whatever to interfere? Shall he join in the hue and cry and encourage by his example what he believes to be an unrighteous cause, or shall he use his influence to quiet the agitation and to induce men to cry for peace? Are Cobden and Bright now called traitors to their country because they raised their voices against the Crimean war in 1854? Is James Russell Lowell called unpatriotic because he denounced our own Mexican war in his satiric verse? Have we forgotten the sentiments of Mr. Hosea Bigelow about the "Cruetin Sarjunt" in Boston...
...association will be entitled to enter the winners and second men in their separate league games upon the payment of the annual dues of $25. Five leagues, representing at least 150 schools, have announced their intention of joining and the prospect of five more coming in is bright...
...acting together and not being united on the same questions. The city is only a large club, so it would seem that the simplicity of its object would ensure success. Yet a city government will not run itself and there is need of continual watchfulness and bright intelligence...
...Harvard Observatory has received despatches from the Lick Observatory in California stating that C. D. Perine on Nov. 17 discovered a comet in the constellation Virgo. The comet has increased steadily in brightness being now of about the fourth magnitude. Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares...