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Outing for March is rather above the average. The best thing about the number is the fact that "Harry's Career" comes to its end. We congratulate the editors for getting through with it, and we sincerely hope for their good as well as our own that they will not undertake to publish anything more in the same style. The number opens with an article on steeple chasing in Ireland. It is good reading and the illustrations are decidedly above the Outing standard, One of the best articles of the number is "Track Athletics at Yale" by S. Scoville, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The March Outing. | 2/28/1893 | See Source »

After discussion. a compromise was offered to form two debating societies, each to have a part in the management of the Yale debate. This however was not well received as the majority seemed to favor the continuance of one society in some form rather than dividing into two branches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Union. | 2/25/1893 | See Source »

...together into a feeling of fellowship, should receive hearty encouragement. We cannot urge too strongly the necessity that every one should feel that he owes it to his class to go to this dinner. The old custom of junior dinners should not die out with Ninety-four, but should rather be the stronger for the success she will make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1893 | See Source »

...result of the Harvard Union on Friday came to us too late for anything more than a mere statement of what had happened. We cannot but feel that, on the whole, the vote to disband and reorganize on totally different principles was a wise measure. It comes as a rather hard blow to certain members of the Union, to all in fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1893 | See Source »

...This rather plain form has been adapted in order that at some later day an opportunity will be given for other additions, since this building is intended to be as the nucleus about which, suitable to the wants of the university, a great library can be built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Reading Room. | 2/17/1893 | See Source »