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...Sears, '83 was again victorious in the Newport Tournament for the Lawn Tennis Championship of the country, in August. In the final singles, Sears easily beat Dwight three out of five sets, with a vantage set, his score being 6-2, 6-0, 9-7. He takes the Horsman trophy, a diamond studded racket and a cup offered by the Casino, and a bronze plaque with a representation of a tennis court done in silver wire...
...Yale crew took their final pull in the New Haven harbor on Tuesday. A large number of spectators were in attendance...
...final sale of class day tickets will take place this morning, from 9 to 12 o'clock, at Hollis 1. Undergraduates who have not yet received yard tickets can obtain them by personal application...
...Johns Hopkins University commencement exercises last week completed the seventh year of the institution. These exercises differ from those of Harvard, Yale or any other of our colleges. The ten preceding days are devoted to the examinations. These final examinations are conducted by gentlemen not connected with the university and not acquainted with the students. This is a severe test, as all can see. The closing or graduating ceremonies are very simple. Visitors are admitted by ticket. Punctually at the hour, the procession - president, trustees, faculty, fellows, candidates for degrees and students - enter the hall, the president, trustees and fellows...
...various ceremonies which give indication of the near departure of a graduating class possess deeper significance than this one. The visit to the observatory may be regarded as the very crowning of the four-years' monument of study erected by every student of the college-as the final "finishing off," to use the phrase of the young ladies' seminary, of his college life. If the origin of the custom were investigated we have no doubt it would be found to have arisen at the time when a knowledge of astronomy was considered necessary for every educated gentleman, and when...