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...first athletic exhibition of the Institute of Technology will occur in the gymnasium building, corner of Boylston and Clarendon streets, Saturday, April 1st, at 2.30 P. M. The events will be : Heavy weight, tug-of-war (over 600 lbs.); middle weight tug-of-war (under 600 lbs.); running high jump; standing high jump; two-hand fence-vault; pole vault; running high kick; climbing the rope; putting the shot (16 lbs.) The prizes will be silver medals for each event, and a bronze medal for each event having five or more entries. Some members of the Amateur Athletic Club will enter...
...snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very astonishing cuts in the wood. But perhaps the Tiger is only sharpening his claws. Who will cage this Tiger...
...bears are running a corner on the New York stock market...
Oberlin, the home of the truly good, finds time in the midst of its deadly strife with a corner drug store, to say a kind and cheering word for Eastern colleges. Now, is not the following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies...
...disastrous fire occurred yesterday in New York city, in which the loss of life is said to be very great. Nearly $1,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. The fire originated in the old World building, corner of Park Row and Beekman street. Several newspapers were burned...