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...convention to be held February 20th. Three hundred or more men are to be present as delegates from the different States, and the affair will be carried on as much like the national conventions as possible. College Hall will be decorated in a fitting manner, and the occasion will doubtless be one of great enthusiasm. The doorkeepers, pages, telegraph operators and presiding officers are to be chosen from the college at large. The names of four candidates-Blaine, Sherman, Hawley and Lincoln-will be brought before the convention...
...until, at 8 o'clock in winter and 9 o'clock in summer, the study bell rang, when all sounds of merriment ceased and men were supposed to be spending their time studying. The picture Dr. Peabody draws of these early days of college life is peculiarly vivid; he doubtless remembers it as no one else does...
...superior to the average Harvard man of thirty years ago. Harvard's growth has virtually kept abreast of the growth of population in the United States, gaining about 30 per cent. every ten years. In comparison with other universities, Harvard and Yale hold a peculiar position, which they will, doubtless, continue to occupy...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...
...taken of the machines. In previous years the machines have been under the care of a man whose business it was to keep them in order. At present they are very much out of order, and , moreover, without care. If this need could be attended to, the crews would doubtless be willing to pay for it, as rowing on some of the machines is at times almost useless...