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...spring football squad began work again in the gymnasium yesterday. The number of men was rather small, but will be considerably larger in a few days. Outdoor practice will probably begin some time this week. The candidates present were: A. Brewer, Hoague, Borden, Cabot, Hall, Townsend, Beebe, Moulton, Wheeler, J. N. Shaw, Duff and Bouve...
...prominent men in college life, and fairly represent the ability and the influence of the student body. Their appointment at this particular time may have a possible connection with the rather exceptional state of Harvard athletics. It is the intention of the organizers of the college conferences to hold periodical meetings at which matters of interest to the college at large can be freely and calmly discussed. The meetings of these conferences will be attended by students and Faculty alike. It is intended to be something like the late Amherst senate...
...Professor Norton's opinion that there should be no formal address given this year, but rather some prominent man should simply read the record of those Harvard men who lost their lives in the Civil War. Professor Norton thinks, also, that the local G. A. R. post should be invited to be present at the exercises, as on Memorial Day a year ago, and that, if possible, the Glee Club should sing songs of a more patriotic character than on similar occasions heretofore, thus increasing the spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism...
...Yale News has recently brought about rather an animated discussion of Yale's compulsory chapel exercises, the principle of which it undertakes to defend, though finding severe fault with its working in practice. The facts brought out by the discussion furnish a basis for interesting comparison between the Yale compulsory and the Harvard voluntary system of religious worship...
...production of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman" in Sanders Theatre yesterday was undoubtedly one of the most unique that has been seen upon any stage in America. Though its interest was rather a literary and historical than a strictly dramatic one, yet the presentation was in every way a great success...