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Preparations are going on at a rapid rate for Thursday's game with Yale. The sale of tickets has been something unprecedented for any baseball games. In spite of the large additions to the grandstands, the seats are largely taken, and it is fully expected that all will be sold by Thursday morning...
...football game with the University of Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day. Yesterday's papers to the contrary, whatever suggestions and recommendations have been made at Harvard and at Pennsylvania have been merely tentative. Several circumstances have contributed to bring about this talk, not the least of which is Pennsylvania's rapid progress in football during the past few years. Last fall she defeated Princeton and in so doing placed herself next to Harvard and Yale. Then came the question of athletic reform. Measures were proposed which would practically have reduced the University of Pennsylvania to the rank of many...
...Scott published his first novel "Waverly," anonymously. It met with tremendous success and was followed by the series of "Waverly Novels," following one another in rapid succession. His prose works show much the same characteristics as his poetry though in varying proportions. Here there is much room for his humor. Though critics have much to say against him his position in literature is unassailable and is as secure as that of Shakespeare or Homer...
...necessity for improvement is urgent. - (a) City poor should be supplied with - (1) Parks and open spaces: Octavia HIll. Homes of the London Poor, chap. VII; American Statistical Association's Publications I. 49-61 (1888). (2) Cheap and rapid transit to suburbs; Scribner's XI, 718. - (3) Improved dwellings and lodging houses; A. T. White, Workingmen's Dwellings; Fort. Rev. XLIX. 285. - (4) Reading-rooms and public baths; Scribners XI. 710. - (5) Sanitary inspection and regulation; J. B. Russel, Life in One Room. (b) Good tenements would pay a reasonable money profit: Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1893; Octavia Hill, Homes...
...least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults now so apparent will be far less prominent on the return of the nine to Cambridge. In fact each game for a month or more ought...