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...expected that next year's contest will be far closer than that of the season just closed. If, also, as is expected, Williams makes application and is admitted to the college league, another dangerous rival will be added to the list of contestants for the championship; for a lively interest in base-ball has always existed at Williams, and from the material now in the college an exceptionally strong nine can undoubtedly be formed...
...about one hundred and eighty. Of this number 28 are from '83; 24 from '84; 15 from '85, and 4 from '86; the rest either being graduates of the college or members of the various schools connected with the university. The last report of the executive committee states "that interest in the debates of the society increased during the past year. The subjects for debate chosen during the last half year, 'Woman Suffrage,' 'Prohibition,' 'Free Trade,' 'Chinese Immigration' and 'Webster's 7th of March Speech,' show the marked preference of the union for great political questions rather than for great...
...methods of "tugs-of-war" practised at Harvard. Formerly a tug-of-war was an enjoyable sport, in which some forty or fifty or more participated. Now a tug-of-war means a stern and painful struggle between eight straining athletes devoid of any great general interest...
Prof. Shaler intends to make about eight excursions with the members of this elective during the year. The programme will include probably visits to Mt. Monadnock, the quarries at Quincy, the silver mines about Newburyport, the Cumberland Iron Mountain and other places of interest. All those who intend to take any of the advanced courses in geology are strongly advised to go on these excursions...
...question of civil service reform in our national politics is certainly one of the leading topics of the day. At Harvard, as well as at other colleges, there are undoubtedly many whose interest in the subject is sincere and earnest, and who are very willing to aid the cause in any way in their power. At one college, we understand, there is already a civil service reform among the students, and at Princeton the project of forming one is now being agitated. There would seem to be no reason why this movement should not spread throughout all the colleges...