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...Wesleyan and Amherst Glee Clubs are to give a joint concert at Hartford, this evening. The clubs appear on the programme alternately, and at the end of each part a piece is given by both the clubs together...
...guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which must be terribly heavy, supported by the Fuchs, or junior freshman of the Verbindung, and surrounded...
...outside. The book is a complete record of the life of the crew from its organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled...
...director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, but who is better known to us as a citizen of New York and a former student in Columbia College, has been asked to take the directorship of the School at Athens in October, 1888, when Professor Merriam's appointed year of office will end, on the condition that a permanent endowment for the School shall be secured before that time. Dr. Waldstein has accepted the invitation with this condition. It is obvious that there is no time to lose, if we are to avail ourselves of this opportunity. It should certainly be an object...
Both crews will, in all probability, leave their universities this week, the Cambridge eight going to Putney direct while the Oxonians will make a visit of some ten days' duration at Bourne End, in response to the hospitable invitation of Mr. Hammersley. The boat which Swaddle is building for the crews will be ready very soon...