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...meeting of the executive committee of the National Lawn Tennis Association this week it was decided to hold the championship singles at Newport on August 20. The time and place for holding the doubles were also discussed, and it is almost certain that two tournaments will be held, one at Staten island and the other at Chicago and that the winners of each will meet to contest for the championship...
...discussion raised by President Eliot's speech on journalism has not yet subsided, since certain Philadelphia papers refuse to retract their first reports. That President Eliot had been misrepresented was evident even before he had denied the newspaper statements. His objections to teaching journalism at colleges are supported by the best, thinkers, and have yet to be answered satisfactorily. That his rebuke to newspaper managers was well deserved is shown by the way many of them acted about his speech. The misrepresentations and attempts to make a sensation out of his remarks cannot be too strongly censured...
...special meeting of the board of overseers was held yesterday morning. Reports were presented by the committees on the Bussey Institution and on the Chemical laboratory. The rules and by-laws of the board were amened. Petitions were presented by the faculty and certain alumni of the Divinity school in regard to voting for overseers. They were referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Shattuck, Wetmore, and Walcott...
...stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped on the fire, layers of clay and sand were laid over the whole mound and its use forever destroyed. Another of the Turner mounds is on a higher level than...
...reasonably certain that the A. A. U. championship games will be held in Boston on April 12. The B. A. A. have secured the refusal of the Mechanics Fair building for that date...