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Harvard, having won every game played, has a strong lead for the pennant. The struggle for second place is close between Princeton and Yale. The result of the week'scontests will in a great measure determine the relative positions of Dartmouth and Brown, each having three games to play. Amherst with five defeats and no victories brings up the rear. The following is a statement of games lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/25/1885 | See Source »

...strength of our nine. As the score now stands we can see no reason why the base-ball championship should not come to Harvard. The brilliant record of Captain Winslow's men is such as to make it almost absolutely certain that Harvard is to take the lead at last in this branch of sport. All the games remaining to be played will take place on our own grounds, and if any are lost it will be as much the fault of the college as of the nine. Yet we are far from advising the nine to trust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/25/1885 | See Source »

...party of students from Amherst college propose to take a trip on foot through central Europe this summer, under the lead of Prof. Richardson.- Springfield Republican...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1885 | See Source »

...fruitless that, although $100 were offered for each of five lines giving information about him, nothing new was discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life of the founder of America's greatest university. Just at this time Mr. Waters is obliged to suspend his operations for want of funds, and has appealed to the graduates of the college for aid. Several alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1885 | See Source »

...draw curtain will be employed. A raised platform in the rear centre will be used as the rostrum, whence Antonius will address the citizens. Caesar's throne will be on the spectators' left, while the senators will be placed upon the right A broad flight of steps will lead up from the orchestra, and there will be steps upon each side of the rostrum. This stage arrangement will serve as the foundation for subsequent changes as the play proceeds. The garden scene will be presented with great care, although the chief changes in the stage arrangements will be property changes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Julius Caesar in Sanders. | 5/21/1885 | See Source »