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Sereno Watson, Ph. D., the Curator of the Harvard Herbarium for the last eighteen years, died at his home on Shepard Street yesterday morning of an aggravated case of the grippe. Sereno Watson was born Dec. 1st, 1826, at East Windsor Hill, Conn. He graduated from Yale College in 1847, and spent the next few years in teaching in New England, Pennsylvania and New York. In 1856 he pursued the study of medicine with his brother Louis, but did not long continue in practice. For a few years just before the Civil war, he was interested in the Planters' Insurance...
...will be seen from this schedule that the nine must play four games in succession with the four strongest college teams in the east, an undertaking which will tax to the utmost the playing ability of the whole team. Captain Robinson, however, states that among the new men he has already found several very promising candidates and that the outlook for a strong team is excellent...
...London in favor of one on the Hudson, and during the past few days its regatta committee have been examining suitable courses. The choice lies between a course at Newburg and one at Poughkeepsie. At Newburg a four-mile course can be obtained, sheltered from all except the east winds, so that smooth water is practically assured. The current runs at the rate of but three miles an hour and as the stream at that point is over a mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel...
Prof. W. I. Knapp who has held the Street professorship of modern languages at Yale since 1879, has resigned his chair and accepted an offer from Chicago University. He will remain at Yale until the end of the college year, and then spend a year in Europe and the east before entering on his duties in Chicago...
...isolation of the British on this continent between the coast on the east and the practically impassable Appalachians on the west may be attributed the great development of maritime pursuits. As these barriers have been broken down by modern methods, and new fields thrown open, commerce has been more and more neglected...