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...promoters of the system of Honorable Mention, which was applied for the first time to the class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult...
...expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike of the managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind the theory that this first Freshman race was an experiment, and that, unless it proved a far more successful one pecuniarily than they had any reason to expect, it should be the last Freshman race ever rowed on the Thames under their auspices...
...absolutely no other places in America where either interest is strong enough to find any pecuniary advantage in guaranteeing proper management for such an exceedingly costly affair as the annual Harvard-Yale race in its present form. The keeping of a clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.30 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. With this week closes the run of "Voyagers in Southern Seas." December 27, Her "Majesty's Opera Company." The operas to be given during the first week are "Aida," "Lucia," "Mefistofele," "Rigoletto," "Carmen," "Somnambula." Sunday, January 2, "Stabat Mater...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. This week and next, the Kiralfy Brothers' "Enchantment," with its gorgeous theatrical effects, will be given. January 3, Salvini for two weeks (eight performances). First week, "Othello," Monday and Saturday; "Hamlet," Wednesday; "La Morte Civile," Friday. "French Flats" on off nights...