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...unwary student plunges. The only remedy for this evil is to raise the flagstones a few inches and to give them a very slight slope so that the water may run off and not collect on the uneven surfaces. But to accomplish this money is required, and presumably the ever low condition of the college funds would not warrant such an outlay. therefore, I propose that a subscription paper be started by those who find the present state of the walks so deplorable that they can not restrain their complaints, and that these persons head the paper with the amounts...
...field of entries for the next meeting to be held tomorrow is a very full one and gives promise of some of the best contests which we have ever seen. The entries...
Amherst will probably put the strongest nine into the field this year that she has ever had. Taylor, '84, resigned the captaincy, and Harris, '85, was elected in his place. But two positions were left vacant, third base and right field. Hamlin and Warren who filled those positions last year were graduated, but their places have been filled by good men. Hunt, '85, who caught last year, will go to left field, and Sullivan, a new man, will play behind the bat. Harris, '85, will pitch again this year, and it is though will even out do his record...
...adoption of the elective system marked the first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly...
Several months had been passed in these fruitless efforts. Grant was now no nearer the city which was as safe as ever. It was almost the end of April. Something must be done. A new and, as it proved, successful plan was devised. To harass and occupy the attention of the enemy a cavalry raid to the east and rear of the city was carried out successfully by Colonel Ryerson, while Sherman and his corps watched the works just above Vicksburg. Grant moved the rest of his army to the west side of the river and making a wide circuit...