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...Oliver Wendell Holmes delivered Tuesday his last lecture at the Harvard Medical School. One o'clock-the hour for the anatomical lecture at the school-found the amphitheatre packed with students of all classes, among whom were many gray-haired practitioners, assembled to hear their old teacher give his last lecture. The advent of the doctor was marked by the rising of the pupils, and as their clapping ceased, one of the members of the school presented him, in behalf of his last class, a beautiful "Loving Cup," inscribed with a quotation from one of the "poet's" own poems...
...foot-ball match with Princeton this fall her eleven demonstrated one thing pretty clearly, and that is that the rules adopted at the last inter-collegiate convention to prevent the old so-called "block game" were totally unavailing when put to the test. The game employed by Princeton was entirely justifiable by the rules, and under the circumstances was, without doubt, the very safest and most reasonable method she could employ. Had Harvard been in her place she would have undoubtedly used the same means to hold her advantage. But by this method should an inferior eleven chance by accident...
...this conduct on the part of Boston papers is can only be conjectured. It is well known that most of the reporters of college affairs are college graduates. The opinion has been advanced that the spirit shown in these accounts of games is simply a manifestation of the old complaint, Harvard indifference - this time a sort of postgraduate indifference...
...style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction of all. In this way the interest of all was kept up, and there was nobody in the room whose thoughts seemed to wander from the matter in hand...
Evacuation day was celebrated in New York Saturday, the Old Guard parading...