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...first of the University teas for the year will be held in Phillips Brooks House Parlor this afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock. The object of the teas is to bring the students in touch with each other and with the officers of the University and their families. These teas are under the direction of a committee composed of the wives of several members of the Faculty, and a few of the committee will always be present at each tea and also some of the officers of the University and their families...
...eleven meets Yale today with a determination to win. Harvard has never beaten Yale in two successive years and Harvard has seldom beaten Yale at New Haven, so the team which plays today has before it the prospect of a most significant victory. This object has been the key note of a season of hard, steady work, and today the test of the work will be made. A slow development has been sought after by the coaches and the result is that the team will begin the game at the highest possible point of physical and mental strength. The spirit...
There was scarcely any preliminary work and practically all the time was devoted to a scrimmage between the first and second elevens. The main object of the practice was to test the defensive strength of the team, and several times the second eleven was permitted to retain the ball after it had been lost on downs. It was of no avail, however, for once the second team, instead of making even small gains, was thrown back in eight plays for a loss of 10 yards, and again on a long series of rushes could gain but 40 yards. There were...
...Congress when in session at New York had representatives of twenty nationalities sent by various governments and archaeological institutions. The object of the delegates is the study of the American ethnological conditions of the fifteenth century and also of the pre-Columbian epoch...
There are two objects immediately in view in this year's administration of the Infirmary, one of which is the discovery of the best way of making it pay its expenses. The other and more important object, however, is to start the Infirmary on its actual service to sick members of the University, and to gain from the year's experience a practical idea of its working needs, on which, after all, the financial plan must ultimately be based. It is important, therefore, that the registration under the four-dollar plan should be up to the minimum number...