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...understood last year that as each court was abandoned, it was to become the property of the association and was not to be reassigned to any individual players. If our information is true, this understanding has not been observed, as several courts which became vacant at the end of last year, have again gone out of the possession of the association...
...third meeting on Saturday was atteaded by the usual crowd of spectators. A new arrangement placed all the ladies at the east end of the building and it seemed as if there were more of the fair sex present then ever before. The new plan of seating seemed to be better than that hither to practised. The officers of the meeting were: referee, Dr. D. A. Sargent; judges, Prof. Byerly and Mr. I. Tucker Burr, '79: officer in charge, W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84. Mr. Coolidge, the president of the association presided. Towards the close of the meeting...
Since we seem bound to have an Academy, let us have the best one possible, and to this end it is to be hoped that not only Harvard students, but all persons interested in the University will give it due consideration. If properly considered, the question will be settled mainly by the college graduates and students of the Country, and Harvard should come in for her share.-There remain, however, many other serious objections to the form and spirit of the French Academy which ought to be discussed before we accept it as our model...
...confident of success, he sent Longstreet away to blockade Burnside at Knoxville. Grant, when all his men were at hand, made preparations for a general attack. Hooker was to keep the enemy busy at Lookout Mountain, Thomas was to take Orchard Knob, while Sherman was to capture the northern end of Missionary Ridge. Sherman encountered at first much resistance, but Hooker and Thomas carried the heights in their front. Bragg then withdrew all his men on to Missionary Ridge, still confident that he could not be dislodged. Another day's events undeceived him. As Hooker was delayed by a broken...
...caste and the priestly caste were alone held in honor, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves, as in the pagan world, were practically not much better off than slaves, and not more seriously regarded. And how absurd it is, people end by saying, to inflict this education upon an industrious modern community, where very few indeed are persons of leisure, and the mass to be considered has not leisure, but is bound, for its own great good, and for the world's great good, to plain labor and to industrial pursuits...