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...suggestion was recently made through the columns of the CRIMSON that the H. A. A. should offer handicaps in the winter meetings. The prospects for entries by Harvard men was then so discouraging that the president of the H. A. A. had been bilged to make a public appeal for more contestants. If there were but few men ready to enter then, the events of the last week have been by so means encouraging to those who were hesitating or unwilling. At the meeting of the Boston Athletic association, a Harvard man far surpassed the best records of all other...
...Lyman Abbott delivered a sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything...
...York league nine has renewed its offer to present a banner to the college team making the largest score against them. Games have been arranged with Yale, Princeton, Williams and Manhattan...
...first part of the president's report for 1888 89 refers to changes and resignations in the governing boards. The number of candidates for admission who offer all the elementary studies, including Greek, French, Latin and German is increasing; the increase in per cent. of 1889 on 1888 is from 31.43 to 37.31. Also the number of these who omit Greek altogether has increased from 3.5 per cent. to 6 42. Facts show that the classical schools are giving more attention than formerly to modern languages and experimental sciences, and that schools which do not teach Greek are becoming more...
...school association has, through its secretary, Lous D. Brandeis, '77, issued a notice of the offer of a prize for the best essay on any one of the following subjects...