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...author and lawyer soon after leaving College. He was Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts, General Counsel to the United States Industrial Commission, and has been Professor of Comparative Legislation in the University since 1904. He is the author of several books of fiction, as well as of some half-dozen works on law. Barrett Wendell '77, also an editor of the Lampoon and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, has been Professor of English in the University since 1898, Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later lecturer at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at other French universities...
...will hold a boxing meeting during the third week in December, in the Club gymnasium. Manager John Graham desires to arrange a half-dozen good bouts and would like to hear from the well-known amateurs. Good prizes will be given. The club will also hold invitation athletic meetings for Harvard and Tech athletes the first and second weeks in December. On Jan. 18, the big boxing meeting will be held in Mechanics Hall. There will probably be nine bouts with all New England pitted against Chicago, Pittsburg and Cleveland. The big athletic meeting will be held...
...have proved themselves capable of doing moderately good work. Only two men, Hoyt and Bigelow have had any considerable previous reputation in athletics. Hoyt is probably capable at his best of improving the Harvard record in the pole vault by some inches. Bigelow is rated among the first half-dozen amateur sprinters in the country this year. Both of these men are somewhat out of form at present...
...been arranged for tomorrow, the number to go from Cambridge will probably be much larger than usual. It is very probable that the Harvard-Andover men will club together and get a coach from which to view the contest. The students at Exeter have made up almost a half-dozen new cheers which have been printed, and the whole school has been practising the new yells every afternoon for a week. Both schools are making unusual preparations for the struggle. The teams will probably be as follows...
...surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight-oared barge, and wishing to vie with her on the water sent a challenge to row on Lake Winnipiseogee. Harvard accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked out to represent Harvard. The race took place on August 3. The "Oneida" was victorious both in this and in the next race which occurred at Springfield in 1855. The following year, after the "Oneida" had done Harvard good service both as a pleasure...