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...weeks ago we stated that the students of Notre Dame University gave a performance of the "Edipus Tyrannus," rendering the lines in English. We unintentionally misstated the facts. The play was rendered entirely in the Greek, and was a brilliant success...
...Yale alumni dinner in New York, Capt. Bob Cook is reported to have said that: "Harvard refused to accept the English system until 1876, and she has since been trying hard to reach as favorable a standing as the other college crews." Indeed! How many more races than Yale has Harvard won since that time? Some one must have blundered...
...Edinburgh celebration begins on next Tuesday, the 15th, and will last during four days. The various English and colonial universities and colleges will be represented by some eighty delegates. Harvard will be represented by her professor of belleslettres, Mr. Lowell, who has also been selected to represent Cornell. It is also expected the following European universities will send delegates. Halle, Gottingen, Leipzig, Upsala, Jena, Berlin, Kiel, Christiania, Ghent, Zurich, St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Cracow, Pesth, Paris, Lund and Louvain. Medals to celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among...
...This year the boating authorities asked me to re-establish it and I have consented to do so. In point of fact, I already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were in 1883, and therefore they need but little instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized...
...Yale were lost by the every best crews that ever sat in boats, and yet Davis, the man who coached them, is considered the best professional trainer in the country. This proves conclusively two important facts: First, that professional coaches will not do for college oarsmen. Secondly, that the English stroke is by far the best known. Davis' idea was to put his men into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked...