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...Harvard and Columbia. This is the only decision that Harvard should come to this year in the matter, and indeed from the first there has been no doubt that it would be finally settled in this way. The reasons for such refusal are already well known. We do not object to a freshman race with Yale, but we can row only one race, and must row Columbia, and do not think that there is room enough on the New London course for three boats to race with equal advantage. It is to be hoped that by next year some more...
While recognizing the fact that lacrosse as an object of college interest and support cannot longer exist, we regret that the team could not have finished this year under favorable financial conditions. Whether supported or not, it has been for some years a Harvard University team and as such has made agreement for games in the league to which it belongs. If it forfeits these games so much to our discredit. But now it seems that the scheduled game will be played owing to the self sacrifice and high sense of honor of the members of the association. While...
...mass meeting yesterday afternoon showed that lacrosse has no hold whatever on the interest of the men in college. To many it has been evident for some time that the sport of lacrosse as an object of University interest and support, was doomed, and the meeting of yesterday afternoon has now fortunately settled the question. We regret that the team could not go on and finish the season but under the circumstances we commend most heartily the decision of yesterday's meeting...
...will be given the annual spring concert of the freshman Glee and Banjo clubs for the benefit of the freshman crew. The members of the clubs have been practicing diligently for the past few weeks, and the indications are that the concert will be an unusually good one. The object for which the proceeds from the concert will be devoted is a worthy one, and for this reason alone, the concert is deserving of a large audience...
...well attended meeting of men from other colleges was held last night in Sever 11. A permanent organization was effected, to be known as the "Harvard Intercollegiate Club." The constitution adopted states the object of the club to be "to bring together its members for mutual entertainment, and especially to lend any assistance possible to newly arrived students from other colleges." There will be an earnest endeavor to make the Graduate Department here and the life of men coming here from other institutions so attractive that a large number of men will be drawn here. Graduate students, students...