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...regard to the higher liberal education which it now holds, and into which other colleges would promptly step. It would be interpreted as a surrender, or a serious concession, to the influences which constantly threaten the cause of quiet and thorough study, which in America calls for greater rather than less recognition and encouragement. While the principal colleges would seize the opportunity to step into the position of leadership abandoned by Harvard, many of the smaller colleges would be obliged to lower their standard to correspond with ours, and the injury done would there by be spread far and wide...
There have been enough men out for two elevens from the first, so the men have been put to work every day playing a game. The men are apt to think they are out for fun rather than work, however, and do not settle down to earnest effective work. Further it has only been because of the constant and untiring efforts of the captain that the men have been induced to come out. Some of them cannot see the necessity of appearing at practice every afternoon. They do not seem to realize their obligation to the class to come...
...scientific articles include one by G. H. Darwin on Meteorites and one by F. T. Bickford on "Prehistoric Cave Dwellings." Henry Cabot Lodge's discussion of patronage in office should be rather called political...
Each number contains three articles, and the subjects show the co-operation of many departments. It is the design however, of the University to differentiate special "studies," in order that each may have its own channel of communication. The character of the papers already printed is eminently scholarly, scientific rather than popular, and speaks well for the thoroughness of the university work in general...
Harvard defeated Brown at Providence yesterday in a close but rather poorly played game of ball. It was Brown's Class Day, and a larger crowd was at the grounds than at any previous game this year. About fifteen Harvard men accompanied the nine...