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REPRESENTATIVES of the Yale and Harvard University meet at New London to-day to arrange the conditions of the race which is to take place on the Thames, July...
...COMMITTEE consisting of Prof. Asa Gray, Prof. George L. Goodale, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz have issued a circular asking for $80,000 to place the Botanic Garden upon a "sufficient and independent foundation." $25,000 has already been subscribed: of this sum, Frederick S. Ames gave $5,000; John C. Phillips, $2,500; H. H. Hunewell $1,000; Miss Marion Hovey, $100; Alexander Agassiz, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $500; Quincy Shaw, $5,000; E. W. Hooper, $200; A. P. Chamberlain, $100; John Amory Lowell, $1,000; H. P. Kidder, $1,000; a conditional subscription...
...third and last day of the H. A. A.'s Winter Meeting took place on Saturday last, in the Hemenway Gymnasium, and, although very interesting, was not so successful, either in the number of the events or of the entries, as the meetings of the two preceding weeks. The excellent management which has characterized the two previous meetings was again noticeable in the promptness with which the different events followed one another, and gave great satisfaction to a large number of spectators, many of whom were graduates. First on the list came the vaulting (with one hand), for which Messrs...
...Cause (worst of all). This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery of Beck, a place still famous for the piety and erudition of the occupants...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M., Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The rest of the week, Jarrett and Rice's "new musical comedy oddity." by George Fawcett Rowe, "Fun on the Bristol," the action of which takes place in an up-town New York house, and on the Sound steamer "Bristol." It is bright and amusing. The Tragedians of Kalamazoo" will be given April...