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...will select his subject with special reference to the occasion. Last year this service was omitted, but the three hundredth anniversary in 1907 was made the occasion of a great undergraduate celebration. It is expected that henceforth the birthday will be marked by a brief address similar to the one to be given in Appleton Chapel on Monday...
Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...
...calls attention to a condition in the award of cross-country insignia, which, on its face, is similar, but which, in reality, is not the same. Men who represent Harvard in cross-country runs receive the "H.A.A.," just as men entered in the Yale and intercollegiate track meets. Each one has a chance to win the track "H" by finishing first, but, what is more important, these cross-country runners naturally have the best chance to win places in the two distance events in the spring track meets...
...University Tea of the year will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock. These teas will be held Friday afternoons during December, January and February, to provide an opportunity for members of all departments of the University to meet one another informally and to bring them into closer relations with the officers of the University and their families, particularly with those professors whom they do not meet in their courses...
...Students Observatory on Jarvis Field may be used by all members of the University from 2 to 5 o'clock tomorrow morning to view the total eclipse of the moon. The period of totality begins at 3.14 o'clock. Besides the 7 1-2-inch Agassiz telescope, a smaller one will also be trained on the moon...