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...those to whom the welfare of our leading universities is dear, will hope for President Eliot's success in establishing the correct equilibrium between mental and physical training at Harvard, and great curiosity must be felt concerning the means he will employ.-[Mercury of the College of the City of New York...
...correct with stripes...
...understanding that there would be no race. If Mr. Watson gave the race to Columbia, understanding that the hour for the race was fixed for half-ebb tide, and that there had been no subsequent agreement changing the hour, Harvard admits that Mr. Watson's decision was logically correct, and in any event, of course admits to the decision. But, in fact, there was no agreement to row at half-ebb tide, but there was, as Harvard supposed, an agreement to row at 11:30 A. M. On this supposition, Harvard refused to give way, when asked by the Columbia...
...edict has gone forth to lower the net in lawn tennis, and that for the future, in single matches, the correct height of the net will be three feet six inches at the post and three feet at the centre. The new rule will be adopted in the contest for the championship at Wimbledon. It seems a very great pity that so many alterations are made in the game. The end will be to spoil it. This lowering of the net was not at all desirable. The height kept down the experiments in overhand serving. - [London Court Journal...
...first Latin play that has ever been presented in this country. The play chosen is "The Adelphi" of Terence, his last and doubtless best comedy. The latest Chronicle says of the approaching revival : "In preparing this play for representation no pains have been spared to make it complete and correct in every respect. The costumes have been carefully studied from the best classical authorities and from engravings and statues. They are not exactly such as would have been worn by the Roman actors, but rather those in vogue in Athens at the time the action is supposed to have taken...