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About seven hundred men assembled in the square yesterday afternoon to welcome Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis on their arrival in Cambridge. When the carriage containing Mr. Lehmann, Mr. Willis and Captain Goodrich drove into the square, hearty cheers were given first for Mr. Lehmann, then for the others, for the crew, and a final three times three for Harvard. The carriage then drove to the boat house and Mr. Lehmann spent the rest of the afternoon coaching the fours. He took one crew at a time and gave them each the benefit of a half-hour's coaching...
...playing of Holt and Ward was very disappointing, and they repeatedly drove into the net and out of court. Marvin and Whitman played very good tennis for the most part, and their volleying at times was brilliant. Marvin, particularly, smashed the short lobs of Holt and Ward beautifully, and played a good game throughout...
Both men ran up to the net on their service and the volleying was very swift and for the most part fairly accurate. Carleton drove beautifully throughout and if he had been stronger in his smashing, the result might have been different. Ward volleyed particularly well and his lobs were all well back in the court, which drove Carleton from...
...Haverford bowling. Though the inning started out propitiously, the wickets fell fast, after Adams was bowled out until, at the fall of the 5th wicket, Harvard had 81 runs to make with half her side out. In this precarious situation, Scattergood started in to hit hard. He drove out 13 boundaries and with Carleton carried the score up to 67, when Carleton carried the score up to 67, when Carleton was put out by a beautiful one-handed catch of Lester...
Professor John Fiske lectured last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Bacon's Rebellion." In beginning he showed how the growth of the Cromwell party in England drove the Cavaliers to Virginia. In 1649 a party of more than 300 of these fugitive royalists, belonging to the very best class of people, came to Virginia. These Cavaliers made the reputation of Virginia, and from them many of our most distinguished families have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself...