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This appeal is signed not only by a committee representing all the Harvard alumni living in Charleston, but also by a distinguished honorary committee representing the whole country. The treasurer of the local Charleston committee is Frank R. Frost '86, Peoples Offices Building, Charleston, S. C. The honorary committee is headed by Hon. Joseph H. Choate of New York, and by President Charles W. Eliot of Cambridge, whose names are followed by those of Henry L. Higginson '55, Boston, Mass.; Carlton Hunt '56, New Orleans, La.; Augustus E. Willson '69, Louisville, Ky.; George Wigglesworth '74, Boston, Mass.; George...
...that before the intercollegiate season begins, in the latter part of this month. Last spring Harvard placed third in the intercollegiate series; this year there appears to be a good chance of its getting the championship. Before the season commences, the team will play a few practice games with local teams...
...some it may seem that various fanciful tales that appear almost daily in many local newspapers constitute the most extreme form of misrepresenting Harvard in the public press; but they should see papers from remote parts of the country if they would learn how distorted and perverted yellow news may become after travelling a few thousand miles. If one were to make a business of scrutinizing generally the press of the country for Harvard news, one would no longer wonder why so many misconceptions are rife concerning the life and students of the University...
...clothing will be distributed among local charitable organizations, but most of the text-books will be kept in the Phillips Brooks House loan library, to be used by students on payment of five cents per volume. The magazines will be sent to the seamen's mission and later distributed aboard ships...
...University team this spring will play Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Haverford, Brown, and possibly Princeton. Besides these intercollegiate games, Harvard will also play the Springfield Training School as well as several local teams...