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...marched to Sanders where the usual exercises took place, At one o'clock the alumni meeting was held in Harvard Hall, at which William G. Russell of Boston was chosen president for the ensuing year. At the dinner of the alumni in Memorial Hall, the crowd was larger than ever before. The Hon. Joseph H. Choate, of New York presided. In the course of the speaking the election of overseers was announced as follows: Andrew P. Peabody, 580 votes, the highest number cast for one candidate; Francis M. Weld, 541; Solomon Lincoln, 499; Wm. C. Endicott, 375; Phillips Brooks...
...paper set the minimum section in Freshman Physics is said to have been the hardest one that has ever been given in that department...
...Francis M. Weld of New York received the highest vote which has ever yet been cast by mail for a candidate for overseer of Harvard College, and in it may be found a substantial proof of the hearty acquiescence of the alumni in the innovation of having non-resident alumni...
...undergraduates it is the University crew. If success is any argument for support, the crew can certainly present that argument. Defeated in 1881 in a race where the honors were almost equally divided between victor and vanquished, and victorious last year in the fastest eight-oared race ever rowed by two crews in this country, it would naturally be supposed that the Harvard crew could not possibly lack support. In spite of our misfortunes of this year, we send to New London one of the finest crews Harvard has ever entered in a race and one that will give Yale...
...position. The architects of the hall have insisted that the window shall be very light, - lighter than any now in the hall, - but the artist has nevertheless been able to use some rich coloring. He says of it himself, "For a light window it is the richest I have ever seen." Mr. LaFarge has not been allowed to use any of the curious white glass which appears in the window of the class of '60. The class of '54 may possibly place a window on the south side before commencement. Their subjects are Sophocles and Shakspere...