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...Club will hold its last meeting for this year next Tuesday evening. A number of prominent gentlemen have been invited to be present...
...number of men who carry their hero-worship to such an extent is happily small. But although Gosling is not often seen at Harvard, he does exist here. We all know him. He is not an imaginary phenomenon, but real flesh and blood. To use a milder and perhaps more applicable illustration than the former one, he is the man who, though he has a short neck, must needs make himself ugly and very miserable by wearing a high collar, because Swellington, who has a long neck, can wear such a collar comfortably and to advantage...
...Intercollegiate Athletic Meeting at Mott Haven last Friday was the most successful, in point of the number of contestants and excellence of records, ever held. The only drawbacks seem to have been the incompetency of the gentleman who was substituted for Mr. White to judge of walking; and the great variety of jumping contests, which, together with the pole vaulting, were decidedly tedious. The success that Harvard's representatives won should urge our athletic men to fresh exertions, and the apparent walk-overs in the mile-run and in several other contests should instil in them the idea of training...
...contest between them for the championship will be sure to prove very interesting. They have agreed to start promptly at ten o'clock, and so everybody who wishes to see the race will have to be present at that hour. We present to our subscribers with this number a programme of the races and a list of the men on each crew. All who wish to secure good places at the Union Boat-house should be present at an early hour, as the accommodations are decidedly limited, and the crowd is likely to be very great...
...There is to be more laboratory work next year than there has been this, none of the work being in Qualitative Analysis, but all in connection with the lectures; the lecture-room experiments will be repeated by the students. Some change may be made, too, in the relative number of recitations and lectures. One mistake in the Elective Pamphlet should be noticed. Fifteen hours - including one hour in Acoustics - is required for Honors in Music; only fourteen can be found. We learn from Professor Paine, concerning this, that Music 2, counterpoint, three hours a week, ought to be divided into...