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Nathaniel Thayer '71 died at his home, 22 Fairfield street, Boston, yesterday morning after an illness of nearly two years. For many years Mr. Thayer was prominent in railroad and financial circles, national as well as local...
...tennis courts on Jarvis Field will probably be ready for use by the first of April. Men will practice on these courts until the middle of the month, when trial matches will be played with local teams if possible, the results of which will determine the University team. Matches have been arranged with the Longwood Cricket Club, the University of Minnesota, Princeton, and Yale. There will also be a practice match with members of the University at large who are ineligible for the University team. A separate tournament for the College championship will be held...
...there is the constant danger that they, too, are not alive to the facts as they really stand. So the research student, if he expects to carry on his work successfully, must himself have formed imaginative ideas of what he is going to find drawn from the study of local conditions. He must have questions ready, in order to draw forth the facts which really exist. As an example, in the whole municipal government of England theory and fact are widely separated. We generally believe and the English public believes also that city government in England is efficient because...
...Worcester passed the bill which allows for the construction of a drawless bridge with a twelve foot clearance over the Charles River at Boylston street, yesterday afternoon. The Senate passed this bill February 9, and it will become law when signed by the President. It will then remain for local authorities to conduct the arrangements for the construction of the bridge...
...believe the most practical means to attain this end might be taken by the various local Harvard clubs all over the country. Each of these organizations might well have a press committee to take congnizance of the Harvard news printed in the local papers. Should an untrue story appear, these committees could at once bring the matter to the notice of the editor in charge. If vigorous action of this sort were employed, it seems reasonable to suppose that before very long, editors and correspondents would hesitate to print untrue, but nevertheless insidious, news items concerning Harvard...