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...annual cross country run will probably take place next Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 p. m. The course, already laid out, is a little over ten miles in length. The start will be made from the gymnasium, the course extending from there across the Common, down Concord avenue, along Garden street to Sherman street, thence to the dike, through the clay-pits to Concord avenue, down Fresh Pond drive, round Fresh Pond, up path through woods to Mt. Auburn street, over Brattle street to Mason, across the Common to the Law School steps...
Again we believe that if more of the 'Varsity men had a greater sense of responsibility the teams would not be so liable to overtraining. It is only too common to see prominent football men simply lying by after the season is over and growing flabby. When the season of their activity comes round once more it is not uncommon to find many in no sort of shape to take up their work again and simply through lack of what seems to the careless such a nonentity, a little regular exercise...
Hawaii is a stopping station of interest to those commercially engaged upon the Pacific. Naturally the group of interested nations will not be pleased to see some one of the group in exclusive control of the common station. Russia, our sworn friend of the past, has for the first time begun to chafe. Germany has mainfested distrust of our chief justice in Samoa...
...take pleasure in publishing this morning an article on the recently established Workingmen's Reading Room, and congratulate the originators of the plan on their success in materialising their project. Counter attractions to the evil influence of the common recreation grounds of many workingmen are necessary, and there is certainly no more beneficial line of philanthropic work than that which offers to workingmen a pleasant and wholesome resort where they can be thrown on a seemingly equal footing with those who are interested in their welfare. The charitable work undertaken by Harvard men has always had such...
References: Nation, vol. 45, p. 68; vol. 47, p. 125; vol. 48, p. 176; vol. 49; vol. 44, p. 385; Lloyd, Wealth or Common-wealth; Labor I, 539-47; Pop. Sci. M.; March, 1889, p. 619; Quarterly J. of Economics III: 135; Cong. Record, XXI, p. 2456; Joynes, "Pools and Corners...