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YALE, '89, 4; HARVARD, '89, 11.Some 800 spectators occupied the benches on Holmes, yesterday afternoon, when the Yale freshmen were defeated by the comfortable margin of 11 to 4. Additional interest was given to the game by the fact that it was the first time within the memory of undergraduates that the opening game of the series had been played in Cambridge. The Yale nine was accompanied by 50 or more supporters, who cheered their team right loyally...
...advance sheets of the Harvard Monthly for May are out. The leading article is "Meleager of Gadara," by Asst. Prof. James G. Croswell. It comes very a propos with the awakened interest in the Greek authors of lighter literature, which the Princeton theatricals have affected. Prof. Croswell gives a charming sketch of the old Greek epigrammatist. The second meaty article in this number is Mr. Houghton's admirable review of the poet Browning's work. The criticism is very thorough and taken from no one-sided standpoint either. It is given in Mr. Houghton's clear manner...
Harvard played her second championship game with Williams, yesterday afternoon, and won by the overwhelming score of 26 to 1. The game was so one sided as to be devoid of any interest apart from the victory. Williams presented her change battery, but changed to her regular one after the 2d inning, It the first two innings, Safford gave seven men their base on balls, and was hit for five singles and two two-baggers. After that, Tuck went in to pitch, and though not so wild, was hit harder. Williams got in her only run in the ninth...
...clearness and interest of the lecture was greatly enhanced by the beautiful drawing with which the lecturer illustrated his successive steps...
...judges in the preliminary contest of the Boylston Prize Speaking had received considerable sums of money for tutoring some of the competitors. In such cases it is almost impossible that a judge should not be prejudiced in favor of one in whom he felt a personal interest, whom he had himself drilled, and who reflected his own ideas of oratory. He is to a great extent sitting in judgment upon his own tastes and opinions. Without making any personal reflections whatever, it is surely a bad principle, when so many disinterested judges can be found, to appoint...