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...During the Harvard game, cheering and singing were the only methods used--both in a legitimate manner--and we cannot understand why the CRIMSON refers to them as 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents.' We do not believe in cheering as a means of berattling opponents nor is this the object in view. Cheering as a means of support, however, we firmly uphold, and we do not believe that anyone will deny its beneficial effects in encouraging contestants. Cheering with this purpose has in some cases had opposite effects upon the opposing players, especially at periods when excitement runs unusually high...
...executive committees of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton alumni clubs of St. Louis and vicinity have recently appointed a sub-committee to consider plans for the organization of a Harvard-Yale-Princeton World's Fair Club. The object of such a club is to provide, at some convenient spot on the grounds of the Exposition, suitable quarters for members of the local alumni clubs as well as for visiting graduates and undergraduates of the three colleges...
Early in June, letters will be sent to Seniors at Harvard, with the ultimate object of interesting them in the duty of taking some active part in politics, and of helping them to political usefulness...
...last of the series of practical talks, offered by the Travellers Club, will be given this evening by Professor R. W. Willson, on "Simple Determinations of Latitude and Longitude," in Harvard Hall, at 8 o'clock. The object of this talk is to show the most elementary methods of using astronomical observations in marking out the path that has been followed on a long journey by sea or by land; the methods are such as any intelligent traveller may easily learn and employ. The necessary instruments will be shown and explained. The officers of the Club desire to state that...
...Torrey '33. The collection includes a considerable number of dictionaries, many old editions and translations of the classics, some guide books, a few chemical and scientific treatises, and a miscellaneous lot of English and foreign books. These have all been marked at purely nominal prices, with the object of placing them in good hands rather than to realize any considerable sum from the sale...