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...usefulness of the association, but after missing several days' preparation for lectures through careless management on the part of the society's agents, we feel much less disposed to praise it ungrudgingly. If such success is hoped for in the future as has marked the business transacted during the past week, we would urge upon those concerned a more thorough-going conduct of business and as far as possible a more speedy delivery of ordered articles. Of course an excellent excuse for these mistakes exists in the very evident and unexpected overcrowding of business upon the agents of the society...
Beck, of Yale's foot-ball team during the past three years, has left that college and is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania...
...meeting of the senior class last evening, the officers of the past year were re-elected to serve for the ensuing year. The class requested that the two senior societies and the nonsociety men form a committee of six (two from each section), who are to have full powers to make all arrangements necessary for the class elections. The president was empowered to appoint a committee of three to investigate the matter of a class photographer. At the request of Mr. Baylies, the president was also empowered to appoint a committee of two to audit his accounts as manager...
...purpose of electing officers for the coming year. The secretary's report of the last meeting was read and accepted. The vice-president, Mr. Hayes, then presented the seventh semi-annual report of the executive committee, in which the great success of the Union for the past half-year was set forth. The treasurerthen read his report which was accepted. In the balloting, Mr. C. R. Saunders, '84, was re-elected president ; Mr. W. A. Hal C. F. Carrier, '85, chosen secretary, Mr. W. H. Baldwin, '85, re-elected treasurer. A vote of thanks was then tendered Mr. Barnes...
...Advocate makes the following summary of the college base-ball records of the season just past: The average in batting of the Harvard Nine in college games the past season was .257. Fielding average, .746. Brown had the best batting average, .295, and Princeton the best fielding, .831. The best fielders in their respective positions were: Pitcher, Harris, Amherst; Catcher, Hubbard, Yale; 1 b., Hopkins, Yale; 2 b., Parker, Dartmouth; 3 b., Harlan, Princeton; s. s., Cushman, Dartmouth; l. f., Clark, Princeton; c. f., Smith, Yale; r. f., Durfee, Brown. Wadleigh, of Princeton, led the batting of the association, with...