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...Stockbridge last year, where he played a very close match with W. T. Gray in the finals. Cutting is sure to do well. Last summer he won the open tournament at Newport, defeating a number of veteran golfers. Burden also did good work in the Newport tournament, and has grown steadier in his playing this spring. On the whole the team is a stronger one than last year...
...first feeling on hearing it suggested that the Tree Exercises be given up is of instinctive opposition. That Harvard should have to relinquish an old custom even if grown degenerate, and further the location which has become associated with that custom, seems at first sight must be avoided at any cost. Consider, however, what to the college man of today is an old custom. To the majority it is simply one which ruled in their Freshman year, so shifting is the college community, and so soon are traditions formed. To call the actual exercises around last year's tree...
...much for the principles of, and the methods employed in, the Department, and next to speak of its success as such. During the four years it has been distinct in the Lawrence Scientific School the Department has grown steadily but under rather adverse conditions. The little house on Holmes Field beside being inconveniently situated provides very cramped and unsatisfactory quarters. It is improbable, however, that any change can be made at present as lack of funds is a positive check in this instance. In regard to the future of the Department it is felt that a training in architecture...
Since rivalry in high strength tests has grown from a matter of individual to one of possible intercollegiate competition, the establishment of a uniform system among a number of colleges and universities may, by each year giving some one man the recognized championship, prevent considerable bickering. Last year for instance people who are interested may remember that Harvard, Yale and Amherst each had claimants in the field, since, while the methods of test were supposed to be the same, no one could be sure that the apparatus was of a uniform standard. The new agreement by providing for inspection...
Perhaps one of the most important questions confronting the University today, is, what is the best way to treat a Freshman class? The question has grown as steadily as have the entering classes, and has every year become more of an enigma...