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...last performance of "Wytche Hazelle" will be given this evening at the Park Theatre in Boston. The play has been excellently received at every performance and universally pronounced the best produced by the club for several years. It has improved steadily since the first night, as the players have grown more accustomed to their work, and yet it has lost none of the life which has characterized the play from the beginning...
...still somewhat inaccurate, but this is largely due to the fact that many of the men have not yet mastered the under-hand throw which is being taught them. The practice of running men down between bases is now done much more smoothly and quickly, as the men have grown accustomed to the play and know just what each player is expected to do. This innovation in the practice will render the men much more at home in the regular games later in the season. Batting practice will be started within a few days...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...
...been taken for a swimming tank. One or two small tanks are being introduced for the use of dormitories, but a large pool, open to all undergraduates, is a want that has been felt for a long time. In the first place, it is a lamentable fact that many grown men, either because their homes are away from the water or for other reasons, do not know how to swim. In athletics, too, a tank could play an important part in making it possible to have water polo practice...
...Brown declines to row, four places will be left vacant. The men who rowed on last year's university four are all in college. Walton, who has been coxswain for three years, has graduated, and, as the coxswains of the freshman crew and of the four have both grown too heavy, this place will be vacant...