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...attention here. The vacations given at Harvard have always been awarded grudgingly. The effect of this policy is to compel a student to cut a day or two if he intends to spend any time at all at home and means to enjoy himself while there. Above all, a length of time longer than now existing should be given to the students at Christmas, as it is the only chance they many have during the entire year to spend at home with their families. The time thus taken from study could be made up by beginning the academic year earlier...
...required to erect a proper building for the school of classical studies at Athens, has at length been secured, and work on the building, for which the Greek government has provided a lot of land as a site, will begin at once...
...kicked down the field and as none of the Harvard backs seemed to be awake Yale gets the ball, and Morrison kicks to Sears who is at once thrown. Piper makes a long rush of thirty-five yards, and Perry gains fifteen yards but Yale gets the ball at length about the middle of the field. Wurtemburg gets through the rush-line but is stopped by Perry who throws him with a vicious snap. Morrison kicks a beautiful low kick which Sears only gets twenty yards from our line. In a few moments Yale gets the ball again, and just...
...merits of the individual actors and the virtue of the performance itself have been dwelt upon at length by the daily press. It remains to compare this play with the one given here in Cambridge...
Obviously the only objection to the whole plan lies in the extra time required. Certainly an increase of ten minutes in the length of the Chapel service would be deemed too great a change by many. But much may be said in five minutes or less and the time might be gained by the use of shorter musical selections and the briefer psalms. At any rate there can be no better time for beginning this change than during the preaching of Dr. Brooks...