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...University of Chicago Weekly contains a statement which for a frank and plain-spoken exposition of the condition of athletics in at least one western college, rivals in interest the recent utterances of Harper's Weekly on the same subject. The item in question reads as follows...
...that "sovereignty" may lead to protectorates, and those to annexations, until our republic becomes unmanageable? These are some of the questions which suddenly confront us. Can there be anything more creditable to Harvard men than to think and speak on these matters without fear or favor? Is it not plain that nothing can more impede a rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten us away from a deliberate search for the right...
SOPHOMORES.1. William Wilson Baker, of Jamaica Plain...
...placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what purports to be, in "The Raiders," a plain narrative of eighteenth century prose, with such words as "spontaneity" and "crescendo," such phrases as "a happy inspiration." In spite of their faults and crudities, however, and in spite of their lack of fine workmanship, "The Raiders" and "The Men of the Moss Hags" are always spirited and frequently picturesque...
Thomas Parker Proctor '54, a prominent member of the Suffolk bar, died suddenly yesterday morning at his house in Jamaica Plain...