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...most timely and sensible suggestion comes to us from Harvard in the establishment there of three prizes for the best general development in the next six months. As it is well known that weak men at the beginning make greater relative development under the same condition than strong men, these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking...
...sincerely wish there might be some method of impressing the conviction upon the minds of the students at Yale that Harvard desires no quarrel with Yale, that her wishes are entirely peaceful, and that above all the general sentiment of this college strongly deprecates the useless and harmful bickering which unfortunately Yale, so far as it may be represented by the pugnacious News, seems inclined to resort to. Harvard simply believes that Yale played an unfair game in the late foot-ball contest, and one contrary to the spirit of the rules, and she will, we hope, insist that...
...centennial celebration of the foundation of Phillips Exeter (N. H.) Academy will occur June 20 and 21 next. The committee appointed to take general charge of the arrangements consists of Governor Bell, John C. Phillips, Geo. A. Wentworth, Prentiss Cummings and Artemas H. Holmes. On the evening of the first day the reunion of the alumni will take place. On the closing day an oration will be given by Rev. Horatio Stebbins, D. D., of San Francisco, and a poem by Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston. At the after-dinner speaking George Bancroft, the historian, will preside...
...opinions of its contemporaries, - but it is not at liberty to state that these opinions are not "representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college." The Boston Herald, the Advertiser, the New York Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm and the Daily Sun have testified either their general condemnation of Yale's team, or that the general sentiment of Harvard unites in condemning the team. As a slight corroboration of our explanations on our own account we take the liberty of quoting as follows from the last issue of our esteemed contemporary the Crimson for the benefit...
...gift of $50,000 by Senator Joseph Brown to the University of the State of Georgia was refused by the General Assembly on the grounds that the conditions of the proposed donation were unconstitutional...