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THEY play cricket even in India. A team of Parsee cricketers, the champions of India, will visit England next June with the object of playing a series of matches against English clubs...
...entertainment, at the Tabernacle, in Boston, is announced for Wednesday evening, the 24th inst., in aid of the Y.M.C. Association Rowing Club. The athletes of Harvard are cordially invited to participate in the exercises, as a large proportion of the contestants are amateurs and the object is a deserving one. The programme is as follows: Heavy dumbbells; picking up heavy weights; putting the shot; three-legged race; one-mile walk; pulling up, one and two arms; half-mile run; hitch-and-kick; sack-race; horizontal bar; foil and broadsword fencing; tumbling; rowing eight oars; single and double somersaults; hurdle-racing...
...cannot exist together, for the marks defeat the very object of the electives. If a foreign system of education be imported, the machinery that makes its working possible must be imported...
...York. In an explanatory note, Dr. Holmes tells us that the original seal of the College was "a shield, with three open books, bearing the word Veritas." This motto was afterwards changed, probably during the presidency of Increase Mather, a strong Congregationalist, to "Christo et Ecclesiae." The object of the sonnets is best shown by their author's own remarks...
...magazine, managed by five editors, two from each of the societies, and a fifth, who is described as being "originally a convenience to prevent the possibility of a tie." The position of a convenience may be an agreeble one, but we should think that the fifth editor would object to having such a statement of his capacity printed on the cover of the magazine...