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...class meeting in Boylston Hall, Tuesday evening, Messrs. Elliot Bright, C. R. Brown, and G. R. Bryant were appointed a committee to draw up resolutions relative to the recent death of Julius Warren Strauss. No other business was transacted...
...prospects of our eleven seem to be very bright this year; there are now twenty men trying for positions on the team, a larger number than has ever tried before. The freshmen have showed up remarkably well, about six men being out every day at practice...
...first reunion of the O. K. for many years occurred last evening at the Parker House, and was attended by over sixty members, who passed a very enjoyable evening. Hon. Geo. G. Crocker, a former president of the state senate, presided, and many of the toasts were bright and witty. A number of Harvard instructors were present, and the immediate members from '85 and '86. A catalogue of the members since the foundation of the society, which has been prepared by the '85 members, was distributed at the dinner...
Student Life, the periodical published by the students of Washington University, St. Louis, says "The future of the University is bright; she is in all the vigor of youth, and it is only a matter of a few years when we who are now receiving instruction in her classic halls can point with pride to her as the most 'superbly endowed' American University...
...Edmund Gosse told a London reporter regarding American audiences that he found the Bostonians the most critical, sharp, bright, and sensitive: "But all were most enthusiastic and indulgent. My reception at the academic centres-at Harvard University, at Yale College, at that brilliant young nucleus of scholarly life, the Johns Hopkins University-was uniformly cordial and touching. Everywhere the welcome was frank, complete, and far beyond my deserts...