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...next meeting of the Harvard Union will take place Wednesday, April 19, instead of the following Thursday. The disputants are all '82 men. Affirmative, Messrs. Wait and Sewall; negative, Messrs. Hoar and Eaton. The question is: Resolved, That Webster's position as defined in his 7th of March speech was justifiable. As the disputants are all fine speakers, and the subject has been recently discussed in the papers, the meeting will be one of unusual interest...
...knows that the umpiring of the freshman games at New Haven has been unsatisfactory, to say the least. The captain of the freshman nine should take care that no umpire but a professional is chosen, and, if possible, he should be chosen from New York, or from some place that is utterly unprejudiced. He ought to be a man who is not acquainted with either nine...
...colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount of solid acquirement, which it certainly does not now." This is emphatic language, - perhaps...
...Holy Cross College 4. About 200 college students witnessed this game. Cleveland 11, Allegheny 2; Detroit 10, St. Louis 7 ; and at New York, Metropolitans 1, Providence 9. Brown, the right fielder of the Providence nine, sprained his ankle in the seventh inning, and substitute Gilligan took his place...
...first day's session of the American Land League took place in Washington yesterday. Gen. P. A. Collins was elected president. Thirty-two States were represented by delegates. Resolutions were passed demanding the recall of Minister Lowell ; and a-letter condemnatory of Lowell's course was read from Wendell Phillips. Representative W. E. Robinson of New York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying...