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...team made arrangements to play a practice game with the Cambridge club, just to get the men together for a little fall exercise. The game was played Saturday on Jarvis, and our team found that they had caught a tartar. For, while the Harvard team has done no playing except in an individual way since last May, the Cambridge men have been playing matches all the summer and fall. The game was called at about 4 P. M. Harvard kept the ball most of the time at the Cambridge goal but failed to score through poor team work. Later...
...change in the method of conducting future tournaments. This fall the tennis association, alleging as an excuse the lack of a sufficient number of courts, allowed the tournament to be played on any courts and at any time. Consequently it was impossible to watch the play. No one, except the actual contestants, knew when or where a game was to be played. In fact the only way in which the gentleman who had charge of the tournament knew the result was by means of occasional slips of paper left at his room. Under these circumstances it is not strange that...
...library is open every day in the year, except Sundays and Good Friday, from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. All the Columbia men and other scholars who are capable of using it to advantage are permitted to read and take out the books. The number of books is about 60,000 and each year a large number are being added. The building also shelters the famous Torrey herbarium with its 60,000 specimens. The object of the librarian to give to the books the greatest accessibilities with the least possible inconvenience to the reader. The libraries...
...book has been left at Bartlett's for the signature of all members of Harvard University, except members of the Law Scholl who wish to march in the Schurz procession Wednesday evening...
...leave to use your columns to call attention to a matter which I am sure will interest all Seniors and Juniors-that is the examination in forensics. I think I may say that a large proportion of the upper-class-men look with favor upon the change, except as regards the number of subjects to be prepared. A glance at the list offered will show that it contains only topics requiring advanced work and most careful study. To one who is interested in the work, it would be very unsatisfactory to go into the examination with the superficial and confused...