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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is with considerable surprise and amusement that we discover the date "410 B. C." above the figure of Leonidas in the new window of the class of 1858, recently placed in Memorial Hall. Taking as an analogy the date 1643 A. D. above the companion figure Hampden, which marks the year of his death, we may suppose that the date above Leonidas is intended likewise to denote the year of that hero's death. But, according to general accounts, the battle of Thermopylae, with which the name of Leonidas is usually associated, was fought...
...foot-ball game with the Yale freshmen will probably be given up, the two teams being unable to agree upon a place and date on which to play...
...Harvard correspondent of the New York Evening Post, under date of Nov. 4, writes : "Of the three instructors employed last year, after Mr. Riddle's resignation, only one, Mr. H. J. D. Jones, is reappointed this year. This indicates not that the college intends to make less of elocution than heretofore, but rather a preference for the system which Mr. Jones uses. There has been for some years a desire to check the tendency to train young men for theatrical declamation, and to give instead a foundation of development better calculated to make good public speakers...
...quite a number of men who are dilatory in responding to the requests for appointments; upon these we would impress the necessity of attending to the matter immediately. The class, as a whole, made a great move in the right direction by electing their photographer at a very early date. It now remains with the individual members of the class to prove that a marked gain has been made by this new method. Men are urged to make their appointments as soon as possible, and keep them rigidly unless it is absolutely impossible. When an appointment is unavoidably broken...
John McMahon and John C. Daly, the wrestlers, have signed articles of agreement to wrestle either in New York, Boston or Philadelphia, four weeks from date, for $250 a side...